MAD MEN

My wife and I are enjoying watching all of the episodes of Breaking Bad on Netflix. But it's an iron rule that we only watch it together.

She is away on an exchange trip in Poland with her school this week, so I have to find alternative entertainment. So I getting into Mad Men, which is also on Netflix.

Mad Men is all about advertising people on Madison Avenue in New York at the end of the 1950's/early 1960's, and I am getting quite into it. Three things in particular have struck me. How chauvinist the men are, how much alcohol is drunk at work, and how much everybody smokes.

Walter Blotscher