There is a website called stuffwhitepeoplelike.com. Mad Men is one of those. Well, am I turning “white” for liking Mad Man?

Piece of the show I clearly remember:

“It’s not about money. We gave you everything, we gave you your name. And what have you done with it?” — Andrew Campbell

And the generous credit that Rodger Sterling gave Don Draper “for saving Perter Campbell” — “You didn’t get fired because of this man, who said you deserve a second chance” What a master in office politics!

and there are so many more…

You can say these things are far from me, but they feel close. The few years I was in an office in Shanghai, I only touched the tip of the iceberg. In Ane’s world, I saw much more. Now these incredible minds and skills have moved to moving pictures, wrapped in a much prettier package (lord, the suits and skirts, so delicious. You watch and moan, where can I find these real “Man” and “Woman”! ). Besides the office battles, this show smartly set the time to be the great 60s, whereas hippies meet the cities, house wives meet the heavenly viberators. Kennedy v.s. Nixon, and much more. By setting the story in the past, a highly stylized period, the creator succesfully created this seductive world where the old folks find warm memories and the young people find vintage fantasies.  The enlarged segregation (comparing to now) between men and women (physically and psychologically) didn’t push people away for being out of date, but bring out the ever-lasting battle between the sexiest more poignantly.

Now, you may ask, any particular reason that a Chinese person like the show so much? Since  much of it is American culture. Well, a lot of things that were mainstream in that time period, the family values, the men v.s. women, etc happen to match the traditional Chinese culture that I grew up with so well that I find those reminiscent too. Ha.

And oh God, how can you make Don Draper and Joan Holloway this sexy! Definitely not fair!