Why Mad Men Still Feels Like a Warning About the Present A rewatch of The Americans and Mad Men turns two period dramas into reflections on a lasting sense of crisis.</p...
A rewatch of The Americans and Mad Men turns two period dramas into reflections on a lasting sense of crisis.
Revisiting acclaimed television can change the meaning of a familiar story. For one viewer and his wife, a recent rewatch of prestige series The Americans followed by Mad Men did more than revisit two television classics. It also highlighted how dramas set in the past can speak directly to the present.
The Americans, set in the 1980s, and Mad Men, set in the 1960s, are both period pieces. Yet their significance is not confined to the eras they portray. The shows now read as statements about their own periods and about where society still finds itself.
That connection is especially clear in the second-season finale of AMC's Mad Men, the drama centered on Madison Avenue. Beneath its depiction of a hard-drinking advertising world is a broader emotional atmosphere: the feeling of standing on the edge of catastrophe.
The reflection places that mood in a much longer historical frame. The sense of living on the eve of destruction, it suggests, has lasted for 75 years and counting.
That may be the enduring power of these shows. Their settings belong to earlier decades, but their emotional questions remain recognizable. A rewatch can therefore turn television history into a way of considering the present, without requiring the story to leave its original period behind.
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