Reason.tv: A Preview of Mad Men Season 4

The upcoming season of President Obama's favorite TV show will take place in '64, the year of the Civil Rights Act, Meet the Beatles!, the Stone's debut, Johnson's trouncing of Goldwater, and the Surgeon General's "revelation" that smoking causes cancer.

What will become of the men and women of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce who came of age in the staid '50s?

The producers of AMC's hit show are touting a season packed with "surprises." We think we have a pretty good idea of what to expect.

Here's Reason.tv's guide to what Season 4 of Mad Men will get right—and wrong—about the mid-60s.

"Mad Men Season 4: A Reason.tv Preview" is written and produced by Jim Epstein and Nick Gillespie, who also hosts.

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Comments

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Obama's favorite TV show

Did Entourage get canceled? His naming that as his must-see was a great "Oh, he's that kind of douche" moment.

[JEP]

At least it's not Glee

[Episiarch]

Turtle reminds you of yourself, doesn't he.

[rustedangel]

Interestingly awkward dub of "wrong and right" around :55. Did Reason decide to change the order from "right and wrong" to "wrong and right?"

[dbcooper]

"This video is private."

[Warren]

GOD DAMNED WORK YOUTUBE FILTER

[theocrat]

Get an HTC Evo

[Agammamon]

Figures that this is "The One's" favorite show.

A boring drama about petty people obsessing with status and accumulation of power over others.

[dbcooper]

Needs more 'splosions!

[Chris]

I'll tell you what Mad Men got right, Christina Hendricks. She can take care of THIS anytime.

[The Gobbler]

Well I guess if you have a Ronald McDonald fetish.

[rustedangel]

Heresy! Redheads are clearly the choice of professionals.

[Ska]

Especially tall beautiful ones with huge racks.

[Yuppy]

Is there any other kind?

[Ska]

Yeah, the freckly gross ones that look like shit, and have mediocre titties.

TrueBlood has some hot redheads - vampire Jessica and the vampire Queen of Louisiana immediately come to mind.

[SugarFree]

Both dye jobs.

[CoyoteBlue]

But the tits are real!

[Brian Sorgatz]

I never watch Mad Men, but the Crista Flanagan pictorial in the August Playboy pays magnificent tribute to the magazine's glory days in the 1960s.

[Ska]

The queen looks fake, but Jessica? She looks pretty legit to me.

[Cthorm]

Do yourself a favor and where a lead vest. Redheads also tend to go mad a bit easier than others. Oh, the Ginger Curse.

[Cthorm]

wear* ffs

[omg]

Lead vest? Are you insinuating Christina Hendricks gives off Gamma rays?

[John]

Excuse me for a moment. I am taking my talent to South Beach.

[Nielsen]

Judging by this thread, television reviews are not a core competency of Hit n Runners.

[jackrungh]

Embarrassingly little win here.

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I liked it.
+.25

[LarryA]

Television shows featuring epidemic levels of backstabbing turn me off. I figured that out with Melrose Place v 1.0.

But I can see Obama taking notes.

[The Angry Optimist]

Wake me when you get previews of Dexter Season 5.

[Spazmo]

I thought this was reason.com, not feministing.com.

[Brian Sorgatz]

I never watch Mad Men, but the Crista Flanagan pictorial in the August Playboy pays magnificent tribute to the magazine's glory days in the 1960s.

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Repeats already?

[LarryA]

I really believe there is a school, somewhere in Hollywood, that teaches actors the wrong way to handle firearms.

[Shauna Grant]

Tell me about it.

[Ray]

Wasn't blackface already considered pretty racist even by early 60s standards?

[80sfan]

This is turning into Slate

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i do not believe it

[Christian Louboutin shoes]

believe this

[Knoss]

Good point about smoking. To claim that slick advertissing caused smoking forgets that as recently as the 1930's many Americans could not afford pre rolled cigarettes and stores still sold tobbaco leaves.

[jcalton]

Ever since this appeared, I've been curious what Reason (liberty and so forth) had to do with Mad Men. I was hoping--admittedly a faint hope--that the comments would answer that question.

Since I haven't seen the show, and the comments didn't help, can someone explain whether there is some element to this show that makes it Reason-worthy?

Or is this just Hollywood fluff? I'd think even in Hollywood, there's more to talk about that might bear some relation to why we visit/read Reason. (E.g., Harsanyi's Toy Story 3 piece.)

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