I will talk about Mad Men at PCA/ACA next week, and Esquire’s interview with Matthew Weiner touches on some very relevant themes:
Everything is done with intention. But some things are meaningful just to me. I think the thing that would be most surprising to people is how much the construct of the show as a period piece is a smoke screen for the writers—and I’m not just including myself—to put their own lives into their work. It’s not done in the first person, but there are things that are so specific, they actually happened to somebody.
I could dissect that paragraph for hours. I might have to do it in just twenty minutes.