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missy_useless. not mine.Economic Lessons From Mad Men:
The series’s characters learn from each other, their clients and seemingly everyone else in their lives. Draper’s marriage may not be happy, but it does seem to give him advertising ideas. Draper appears as a fully formed advertising talent in the first season, and we can only imagine where he got his skills. We are just given hints, like the story about his Greek mentor.
Peggy Olsen is the character whose evolution on the show illustrates how New York City can be a forge of human capital.
Olsen arrives in the first season as a relatively clueless product of Miss Deaver’s Secretarial School. Her eyes couldn’t be wider and she is a sponge for the information delivered by Draper and others. At first, she picks up the ways of the office from the worldly office manager Joan Holloway. Soon, she’s learning from older copywriters about how to sell a vibrating weight loss device with sexual innuendo. By the second season, she’s tapping into the same veins of nostalgia — in her case for Popsicles — that Draper mined to sell the Kodak Carousel. Her rise reflects her openness to the information constantly being emitted around her.
A spot-on distillation of why Mad Men is one of the rare instructive depictions of how business actually works (or can work, anyway).
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Mad Men makes it to the Top 5 of the 15 Favorite Shows of mine, and the entire cast gets a shout out for their amazing performances!
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PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA
Simon Baker - "The Mentalist"
Michael C. Hall - "Dexter"
Jon Hamm - "Mad Men"
Hugh Laurie - "House"
Bill Paxton - "Big Love"
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES - DRAMA
Glenn Close - "Damages"
January Jones - "Mad Men"
Juliana Margulies - "The Good Wife"
Anna Paquin - "True Blood"
Kyra Sedgwick - "The Closer"
Congrats to the show and Jon on their 3rd nomination, and January for her 2nd nomination!!
Full list of nominees can be found here.
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