Monday, October 17, 2011

The Women Behind ‘Mad Men’


I just recently started watching TV series Mad Men because my coworkers from the marketing department highly recommended it. I was very much surprised to learn that “behind the smooth-talking, chain-smoking, misogynist advertising executives on “Mad Men” is a group of women writers, a rarity in Hollywood television. Seven of the nine members of the writing team are women. Women directed five of the 13 episodes in the third season. The writers, led by the show’s creator Matthew Weiner, are drawing on their experiences and perspectives to create the show’s heady mix: a world where the men are in control and the women are more complex than they seem, or than the male characters realize” (Wall Street Journal).

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574332284143366134.html

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