I guess you'll get to it eventually but the Betty Draper character also underwent quite a tragic transformation -- miserable, repressed housewife, struggling with independence, and just as she begins to assert herself (returning to school, embracing feminism in her own way), she’s diagnosed with terminal cancer. Her arc highlights the suffocating roles women were often forced into back in those wily days, and how breaking free wasn’t always an option and even if you could, the real world waited behind the curtain...
Ken's character changes a lot, but I think Peggy is the one who goes through the most? We see that she knows what she wants early, but I'm thinking about that famous last scene at the end where she's wearing sunglasses, has a cigarette hanging out of her mouth, and is walking out of the office very much on her own terms. That's a million miles away from the "new girl" we see at the start of the series.
The music picks for each episode are fantastic, even if you don't notice them at first? I'm mindful that set design and music supervision are two differen things, but in this series, they seem one and the same. The only other show that does it on that level (IMO) is The Americans.
True story: I might be the only person in Wisconsin that's never had an Old Fashioned. I should probably change that, lol.
I guess you'll get to it eventually but the Betty Draper character also underwent quite a tragic transformation -- miserable, repressed housewife, struggling with independence, and just as she begins to assert herself (returning to school, embracing feminism in her own way), she’s diagnosed with terminal cancer. Her arc highlights the suffocating roles women were often forced into back in those wily days, and how breaking free wasn’t always an option and even if you could, the real world waited behind the curtain...
Ken's character changes a lot, but I think Peggy is the one who goes through the most? We see that she knows what she wants early, but I'm thinking about that famous last scene at the end where she's wearing sunglasses, has a cigarette hanging out of her mouth, and is walking out of the office very much on her own terms. That's a million miles away from the "new girl" we see at the start of the series.
The music picks for each episode are fantastic, even if you don't notice them at first? I'm mindful that set design and music supervision are two differen things, but in this series, they seem one and the same. The only other show that does it on that level (IMO) is The Americans.
True story: I might be the only person in Wisconsin that's never had an Old Fashioned. I should probably change that, lol.