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As a true veteran of the creative 60s, ( I worked at Wells Rich Greene a mecca of creativity) I find the whole thing truly boring.
The 60s was divided into those "boring white shirt guys" and the great insight of creativity brought to you by DDB (BTW Lemon is the classic DDB ad created by Helmut Krone) < WRG< Carl Ally and others.
What made this period great was great thinking, not a look at the white bread attitude of the Mr. Blandings Dream House crew. (Look up the film with Cary Grant).
There truly was no better time to be in "Creative" advertising then the 60s and this show really misses what the times and the creative teams were all about.
The so called fascination watching these boring people is surprising. The chance for them to bee real would be nice if they really tried to show what it would be like to go against a creative agency in a pitch for business.
I've been there and done it and the white bread agencies always lost.
Here's to having lived during the greatest time in advertising and having been part of the revolution then.
To all of you who continue to watch, I guess enjoy it then.

Miller ("Advertising back then was still largely visible as a blight on the landscape, a billboard or an annoying interruption of your favorite TV or radio programs") is too young or too ill-informed to recall how pleasurable ads were to pre- and post-WWII magazine readers starved of visual stimulation. And check Richard Hoggart's Uses of Literacy for how working-class Brits "sang" commercials. "s"sang"coccommecommericalsmmmmmmmmmmmmworking-class on how working-class Brits class Brits "sang

I am a well-read person who has never heard of the word "dystopian". In fact, my huge Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has never heard of it either. I enjoy learning new words, but can't we please use words in articles that are at least found in the dictionary?

As a veteran of the ad business in the years just following those depicted in "Mad Men," the sense that I had then, that everyone in the business has gotten there as their second choice, has been even more solidly cemented. Copywriters wanted to be published novelists or poets. Art directors wanted to be fine artists. Account people wanted to run their own companies, thier client's or those in the Fortune 500. Etc. It has always been an odd business because it isn't "real" to anyone. It is just a way stattion that becomes a semi[permanent home.

What makes this a must watch for me is the show's styling. The look inside Sterling Cooper is so sharp and modern.

There is a really great piece on Valet detailing the fashions of Mad Men. They spoke with the Janie Bryant, the show's costume designer. She deconstructs each character's style.

http://www.valetmag.com/style/profiles-features/2008/dressing_the_part1.php

What makes this a must watch for me is the show's styling. The look inside Sterling Cooper is so sharp and modern.

There is a really great piece on Valet detailing the fashions of Mad Men. They spoke with the Janie Bryant, the show's costume designer. She deconstructs each character's style.

http://www.valetmag.com/style/profiles-features/2008/dressing_the_part1.php