On Sunday May 17 the final episode of Mad Men will air, bringing to a close what is widely considered one of the finest television shows in history.
Set in the skirt-chasing and whisky-swilling world of fin-de-1950s Madison Avenue, the show has been lauded as a window into a past that is a different country.
Yet few shows have been more of their time than Mad Men. For all its retro appeal, Mad Men is essentially one long meditation on the central obsession of the our time: nostalgia. With North American culture Periscoping and Snapchatting and Google-Glassing and Apple-Watching its way towards …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen