{"id":6112,"date":"2010-03-01T00:11:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T07:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=6112"},"modified":"2010-03-01T00:11:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T07:11:39","slug":"mad-men-is-actually-not-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=6112","title":{"rendered":"Mad Men is actually not perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After hearing a lot about how awesome Mad Men is we finally watched it.  While the Art Direction is indeed good, there&#8217;s some major problems with the show:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The acting is not very period &#8211; it reeks of contemporary cable drama.  I realize the challenge of getting actors to act like people in the 1960s, and even that it may not be desirable, since the audience might not be into it.<\/li>\n<li>The writing is a bit overconfident:  Some of the history jokes and flourishes the writers add are incorrect in stupid ways:\n<ul>\n<li>Flourish example: A long &#8220;brilliant&#8221; speech declares advertising is about telling people they are happy, and that everything is alright &#8211; but even an incredibly stupid advertising person could tell you that this is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what advertising is about.  The basic message of all advertising is &#8220;you could be MORE HAPPY THAN YOU ARE NOW with this product.&#8221;  Nice try, nerds!<\/li>\n<li>Anachronism joke example: &#8220;There&#8217;s no magical machine that duplicates things&#8221; or something &#8211; making reference to the audience that there are not yet copy machines.  Ho ho weren&#8217;t things primitive then!  But actually there were ways to duplicate documents &#8211; they were called mimeographs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After hearing a lot about how awesome Mad Men is we finally watched it. While the Art Direction is indeed good, there&#8217;s some major problems with the show: The acting is not very period &#8211; it reeks of contemporary cable drama. I realize the challenge of getting actors to act like people in the 1960s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6114,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions\/6114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}