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The AMC series, Mad Men (Weiner, 2007-2010), debuted in the summer of 2007 and continued for three subsequent seasons. It is narratively impossible to summarize the plot line, testimony to the intricate web of corporate and personal relationship, which the Series depicts. Suffice it to say that at the center of the storyline is Don Draper, a man with a hidden past and a very colorful present, whose creative abilities dazzle his colleagues at the Sterling-Cooper Advertising Agency. But most importantly, this story line begins in the cultural zeitgeist of 1960, and moves through the insurgent events that unfolded in the four subsequent years.
Daniel Mendelsohn in The New York Review of Books (2011) captured the thrall of this series for many viewers:
Since the summer of 2007, when Mad Men premiered on the cable station AMC, the world it purports to depict—a lushly reimagined Madison Avenue in the 1960's, where sleekly suited, chain-smoking, hard-drinking advertising executives dream up ingeniously intuitive campaigns for cigarettes and bras and airlines while effortlessly bedding beautiful young women or whisking their Grace Kellylookalike wives off to business trips in Rome—has itself become the object of a