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Continual positive references in the press.
I found the first season irresistible. The entire show has the queasiness of a certain kind of dream. It’s realistic but also subtly yet powerfully stylized. The main character, Don Draper, is as dark, mysterious, and compelling a Byronic character as I have ever personally encountered. The other characters, despite a certain cartoonish-ness, all seem to contain an irreducible mystery. The sense of design and the cinematography are unlike anything I’ve encountered, and seem much better than that of other television series I’ve seen. The season’s dramatic arc builds more powerfully and coherently than that in the two other series I know that have season-long narrative arcs (Buffy the Vampire Slayer and The Gilmore Girls). The dialogue is chiselled to fine, smart point. There’s a strong element of subtle pornography of various kinds: sex (though there’s nothing that actually goes beyond PG-13, the uncensoredness of the general approach, the willingness to say how things really are, makes the show seem more explicit than movies that go farther), alcohol-drinking pornography, and cigarette-smoking-pornography. And it's perhaps the most nostalgia-producing show or movie I've ever experienced. The presentation of sexism is relentless, incisive, and unable to be turned away from, the way a car-wreck at the side of the road is. I haven’t rented the next season, maybe because it all feels like too guilty a pleasure.
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