Mad Men

This winter break, my sister and I watched many episodes of one of our favorite TV shows, Mad Men.  Caught up in the vivid and dramatic lives of the sharp characters, I slowly realized the insanity of their lives.  Set in the sixties at an advertising firm in New York City, the characters' lives are full of lying and cheating.  The very first episode opens with: "MAD MEN A term coined in the late 1950's to describe the advertising executives of Madison Avenue."  Although the title of the program fits well with the glamourous lives and setting in the show, the double connotation of the title, as "mad" men, or insane men, seems obvious with the crazy lives the characters live.  Watching so many episodes of the program allowed me to realize how, as seen in Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest that society exiles psychiatric patients in the sixties, the average person in the sixties seemed insane as well.  Overall, this break I realized the almost hypocritical characteristics of society in the sixties.  

Above: Mad Men

Right: The characters of Mad Men