Mad Men

I've just seen Mad Men and now get what all the fuss is about. Apart from being a terrific revisionist look at the world of advertising in the early 1960s, it's one glorious reference to the movies and television shows of the time; all those Doris Day pictures (Pillow Talk, That Touch of Mink etc), The Apartment, Days of Wine and Roses, How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying, not to mention Bewitched. The makers even have the cheek to name check them all! And at the centre of it all is Jon Hamm as executive Don Draper, like a brooding Cary Grant from North By Northwest. No wonder they think he's going to be a star. Peyton Reed did something similar with Down with Love (2003), but his pastiche doesn't quite live up to the depths of Mad Men. Great stuff.