Mad Men is a TV drama serious about one of New York’s most prestigious ad agencies at the beginning of the 1960s.
I watched all the episodes and liked it too much. The first reason of my interest was that I love costume dramas and Mad Men successfully reflects the life of America in 1960s. The second reason is that my interest in marketing and advertisement as a part of it. I can clearly say that this series is a must-watch for anyone interested in the world of advertising.
Mad Men takes us to a journey into the golden age of advertising. It begins at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, New York City.
It explores complex traumas the people of the time experienced and how people of certain backgrounds were treated by society.
According to the text that appears onscreen prior to the first episode, “Mad Men” is a “term coined in the late 1950s to describe the advertising executives of Madison Avenue. They coined it.”
According to Wikipedia, the only documented use of the phrase from that time, however, may be the late-1950s writings of James Kelly, an advertising executive and writer.
When I learnt the name “Mad Men” refers to the short version of Madison Avenue, I was surprised but also liked the idea of the name of a TV series to have a second meaning.
Before learning it, It was just about some ad men who can also be called as mad men with their gloomy characters with having the habits of chain smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, infidelity, unruly life etc.
A second meaning in the title of this TV serious caused it to be more meaningful in my perception. They were not mad men any more. They were “The Mad Men of Madison Avenue”
