Why it’s OK that “Mad Men” characters never change - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 04-16-2014, 02:13 AM

http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/tv-re...-season-7.html

"We’ve invested in them, and sometimes the dividends seem puny,” Matt Zoller Seitz says of the final season. "But still we watch. At least, we masochists who don’t care about likability or happy endings watch. It’s not a self-help guide. But there is some value in Mad Men’s spectacle of misbehavior. The show has nothing to teach us. It’s just being honest about the truths people discover and then disregard, and the lies they tell themselves, as history moves around them. They’re doing the best they can.”
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/tv-tattle/2#qT3LcLhG0kGM8L59.99

Yong Fang · 04-16-2014, 10:58 AM

Double post

04-16-2014, 02:13 AM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 125,844	Why it’s OK that “Mad Men” characters never change http://www.vulture.com/2014/04/tv-re...-season-7.html "We’ve invested in them, and sometimes the dividends seem puny,” Matt Zoller Seitz says of the final season. "But still we watch. At least, we masochists who don’t care about likability or happy endings watch. It’s not a self-help guide. But there is some value in Mad Men’s spectacle of misbehavior. The show has nothing to teach us. It’s just being honest about the truths people discover and then disregard, and the lies they tell themselves, as history moves around them. They’re doing the best they can.” Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/tv-tattle/2#qT3LcLhG0kGM8L59.99

04-16-2014, 10:58 AM	#2
Yong Fang Member Forum 3000 Club Member Join Date: Aug 04, 2009 Location: Memphis Tennessee Posts: 3,073	Double post