“Weiner’s chosen narrative posits that our present is much better than the ’50s zeitgeist he portrays, but the essential paradox is that he portrays it with so much love and tenderness that it is sometimes impossible to pull out the theme of generational decay. The audience is caught between a mislaid nostalgia for the often sexist and bigoted environment and an equally mislaid moral desire to see it all disappear.”

- Mad Men and the Paradox of the Past — National Review Online, penned by the Natasha Simons. This blog’s sisterwife and a featured essayist in the book! THE BOOOOK! 

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