Mad Men has been getting a lot of positive reviews but I haven't really gotten into it. I think I'm annoyed by it in a way others aren't. You see I used to consult for an ad agency doing IT work. This was back in the early days of Mac, probably around 1990 or so. Where the guys on Mad Men are close minded and strictly territorial about there work. The guys at the ad agency I worked for loved my input on their projects, and I was just the "IT guy". And while the guys on Mad Men seem stifled, the folks I worked with were creative geniuses getting their ideas from everywhere. It's most of the reason why I'm considered so creative in my work. I learned how to think out of the box from them. And it's kind of sad to see ad men portrayed so poorly. Or maybe they are the wrong ad men. At one point they showed a VW ad that was awesome and then they ripped it apart for no valid reasons. I thought the ad was great. I'd like to see a show about the guys who did the VW ad, not these fools.
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