I am many seasons behind on the Mad Men Television series, having just started watching at the end of last season.  And I must say I am having trouble getting excited about the show.  Yes, I like watching it to flash back to the old days of advertising (the show takes place a little further back than the start of my career!).  The non-stop smoking, the male dominated world and the role of the account person are very much the same as when I got into the business.  Thankfully, the drinking was confined to lunch and after work.  I like hearing mention of agencies still around today and watching the way “whatever the client says and wants” goes.  I had particular fun watching the new business world of this past week’s show, and reading the perspective of AdAge this week.  That was certainly before Agency Review Consultants existed…though they could have used us.

But all in all, I get really depressed when I watch this show.  Life was all sadness, gloom and depression.  I don’t think it is particularly realistic in that sense and it doesn’t make me want to watch the show each week.  So I record it and fast forward through it and then turn on something funny like The Office.  Now that brings me back to reality!