Madmen in my pants (spoiler alert)
I know, I know, I'm late to the party once again. Madmen , amc 's smash hit drama, has been on for three seasons and I just finished watching the first season on DVD. I am riveted by the writing, the themes that are woven so thoroughly and tightly, the characters who make you love and hate them at the same time. As I told my husband somewhere in the middle of Disk 3, "This is everything 'Revolutionary Road' tried to be and failed miserably at." I have long held a fascination with the 50s/early 60s in America. In fact, I'm writing a screenplay that takes place in 1953, with some of the same themes as Madmen, but with a much younger set of characters in a very different set of circumstances. In contrast to the grim 1960 snapshot of the relationships between men and women at home and at work, my script leaves the reader with a reminder that things have improved since the age of women-as-mannequins to be dressed, used, and discarded as whims of men. Gettin...