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'Mad Men': A New Life for Shape-Shifter Don, But It's the Women (Mostly) Who Move On
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyLast season, the "Mad Men" finale -- giddy with the promise of a new year and a new agency – pointed to better days ahead. The end of the marriage of Don and Betty Draper came as a long-overdue relief, more bittersweet than bitter. No wonder this season came as a bit of a shock. Hope gave way to the pain of consequences, accompanied by much drinking, smoking and casual sex. When last seen, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce was circling the drain. On Sunday, I feared and expected a melodramatic cliffhanger, with double doses of despair and perhaps a grand gesture from the resident unexploded ...
Psychotherapy: That'll Be $100,000. Sorry, No Warranty
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyMy colleague Mary C. Curtis writes that Betty Draper has returned to the therapist office. "Mad Men" is set in the 1960s, and there's a good chance Draper's health insurance picked up 80 percent of that tab, if not the whole shebang. Ah, those were the days. Now, you're more likely to get three visits a year. That is, if you're still employed and even have insurance at all. With real unemployment soaring near levels last seen in the 1930s, I doubt people will be able to pay the premiums offered by private companies. (Public Option, was it something I said?) My colleague Delia writes about ...
'Mad Men': Must They Be Unhappy All the Time?
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyI'm contradicting myself, I know. "Mad Men" is great because its fictional world nods knowingly at America of the 1960s, the dramatic changes and social movements from feminism to civil rights. That was my take last season. But after watching the first show of the new season, I'm thinking, "More escapism, please." The characters aren't just flawed, they're unpleasant and mean. That may be true to the tale, but as bedtime viewing goes, it's none too soothing. Peggy Olson, the secretary-turned-copy-writer, once made her way through an all-male advertising jungle, talent barely hiding awkward ...
Work-Life Balancing Act? Congress Says 'No' on Safety Net
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyClose your eyes and picture the typical home-and-work high-wire act. For most of us it looks like this: a harried mom of two (or one, or three) coming in the house, bags of groceries in both arms, throwing off a suit jacket, peeling kids off her shins, checking her BlackBerry, trying not to let the pasta water boil over, and promising the report will get finished just as soon as the kids are asleep, dammit. To complete many such pictures, there is often another acrobat in the picture: an equally overworked man also trying to balance it all. Fact: The number of dual-income households has ...
An Ode to 'Mad Men's' Maddest Mother
By Christine Wicker - Politics DailyLizzie, I loved the story of your bad mother-daughter moment over Barbie and how you both talked about it later. Your story and The Atlantic's criticism of "Mad Men" in this month's issue reminded me that I haven't yet written an ode to the show's most emblematic mother, Betty Draper. She is the best characterization I've ever seen of the '50s and '60s mothers I knew. In those days before the words "child-centered household" had ever been heard, the idea that a child might be spoiled was considered a much greater danger than that a child might not be fully expressing his or her feelings. ...
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