September 25, 2019

Another perfect pairing of Sound & Vision - Mad Men


Don Draper turns from his wife Megan and walks away. Her life is on the up and up and his life is in turmoil. She's just snagged her first job on TV and Don's callousness has just caused a work partner to kill himself. No one knows but Don and he's keeping it to himself because he always plays his cards close to his chest. Like he always does. It's his answer to his problems and the ultimate root cause of every one of his problems.

Just when you think a TV show can't be any better Mad Men hits you with this scene. A hell of a perfect combination of sound and vision.



Cool as fuck.

That intro that kicks in as Don walks into the shadows leaving yet another existence behind. Nancy Sinatra's sultry vocals and knowing lyrics wrapped around 4 characters and their double lives. Don Draper and his immense Dick Whitman secret. Pete Campbell trying to outrun his infidelity. Peggy Olsen and the pregnancy she hid and the child she gave up. Roger Sterling and his newfound love of psychedelics and the baby he can never admit is his own. Don ordering an old fashioned and that look he gives that tells you his old ways are about to return and that he's about to decimate another heart in his ongoing quest to fill the hole in in own one.

Mad Men might have moved too slowly for some but every moment in it was packed with meaning. There's no empty style there. God it was good TV.

Previous pairings

The Colour Of Money
Rules Of Attraction
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