A Guided Tour of Mad Men The First Season edition by Ron Replogle Humor Entertainment eBooks
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You probably wouldn’t be reading these words if you hadn’t already discovered Mad Men’s many virtues for yourself. So you don’t need me to tell you about its masterful storytelling, acting that’s sometimes spectacularly good and the meticulous period detail that invites you to take a holiday from today’s stifling standards of political and cultural correctness. Why, then, do you need this little e-book of Mad Men commentary?
Imagine what you’d get out of a serviceable guidebook you picked up in the middle of your first trip to Paris. You wouldn’t already be there if you needed a book to tell you that the Eiffel Tower is worth seeing. If it’s a decent guidebook, however, you might pore over it that night in your hotel room anyway because it deepens your appreciation of sights you’ve already seen and promises to make you a more discerning sightseer tomorrow. The reading experience might even be enjoyable in its own right if it evokes any of the pleasure of seeing pleasurable things for yourself.
Think of this e-book—the first in a series devoted to each Mad Men season—as a guided tour of the inaugural season of a television series that, like Paris, presents you with more than you can take in on a single visit. In what follows, you’ll find thirteen short essays, each one devoted to an episode of Mad Men’s first season, when the show’s creators were laying the narrative foundation that supports the entire dramatic edifice. I’ve tried, in each case, to put a finger on the episode’s dramatic pulse.
Mad Men aspires to tell a story as wide in scope and as rich in dramatic detail as you might find in a sprawling novel. At its core, it’s the story of Don Draper. As the Creative Director of a 1960s Madison Avenue advertising agency, he’s in the business of turning articles of commerce into objects of mass fantasy. But his most fantastic creation is himself, or rather, that incarnation of himself that goes by the name of “Don Draper.”
He used to be “Dick Whitman,” the illegitimate son of a dissolute dirt farmer. Through a combination of fortuitous circumstance, native talent and outsized ambition, he managed to transform himself into a high-flying advertising executive with another man’s name, a dark secret and a trophy wife who married him without knowing a thing about his past.
I’ll leave it to you to decide whether that’s the story of an imposter concealing himself or of someone becoming himself. In either case, we’ve all told other people, and ourselves, enough stories about who we really are to see something of ourselves in Don Draper.
You can usually plow through even a very long novel quickly enough to keep the pertinent details revealed in earlier chapters fresh in your mind while you digest later ones. If your memory falters or your perspective shifts you can always flip back over the pages you’ve already read as a prelude to tackling those you haven’t.
Mad Men comes at you in the form of weekly episodes, grouped into seasonal packages of thirteen spaced across a currently projected seven television seasons at intervals ranging, so far, from eight to eighteen months. As a result, you can’t appreciate the nuances of its storytelling without having either a photographic memory or the leisure periodically to review all of the past seasons in preparation for the next one.
Who has that good a memory or that much time? This e-book, and the series of e-books that will follow it covering subsequent seasons, are designed to simulate the experience of flipping back over Mad Men’s pages so that you can savor the pages to come.
A Guided Tour of Mad Men The First Season edition by Ron Replogle Humor Entertainment eBooks
I devoured this book the first time through and then savored it in preparation for Man Men's much anticipated return.The guidebook concept is the perfect venue for Replogle's piercing wit, deft command of language, and unapologetic passion for quality television.
Watching Mad Men is no longer just a guilty pleasure... This short, sweet e-book offers the sensation of time travel. Through Replogle's lens I was transported back to the sixties of my youth, with a discerning escort to navigate the joys, horrors, and nascent possibilities of those bygone days. The raw excitement of the era builds with each chapter. The end comes too soon. I look forward to the next journey.
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A Guided Tour of Mad Men The First Season edition by Ron Replogle Humor Entertainment eBooks Reviews
This was a nice throwback to season one. A real pleasure. I recommend this to every Mad Men enthusiast. Enjoy!
Superb read. For anyone obsessed by the series and who can't get enough of the surreal world of the 1960's, a guided tour is another way of reliving the era.
If you are a Mad Men fan preparing for the show's fifth season, you should have this book by your side. It really gets to the heart of the first season that laid the groundwork for the whole story. And it is a pleasure to read. There is so much going on in Mad Men that it is easy to forget how each new season builds on earlier seasons. Replogle tells the story of the first season in a way that helps you remember the experience of seeing it for the first time. I hope guides for subsequent seasons will soon follow!
I devoured this book the first time through and then savored it in preparation for Man Men's much anticipated return.
The guidebook concept is the perfect venue for Replogle's piercing wit, deft command of language, and unapologetic passion for quality television.
Watching Mad Men is no longer just a guilty pleasure... This short, sweet e-book offers the sensation of time travel. Through Replogle's lens I was transported back to the sixties of my youth, with a discerning escort to navigate the joys, horrors, and nascent possibilities of those bygone days. The raw excitement of the era builds with each chapter. The end comes too soon. I look forward to the next journey.
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