^ this stuff maybe is why mad men codes the way it does, as work/family drama that is somehow serious/novelistic/psychological etc - because it manages to find a business, not nec. socially/morally beneficial, but also not primarily criminal, setting to work with against the family one. (but of course it only manages it by making dick kind of a criminal wrt the whole society.)
(vaguely related to the typical western-derived practice of making protagonists of cop/law etc themed shows be lone wolves, chafing at the rules they ostensibly serve, the kiefer sutherland who will do what has to be done for the sake of the law, greater good, etc. but hardly anyone ever thinks dick/don has that kind of license for setting himself apart.)
― j., Tuesday, 16 September 2014 13:39 (nine years ago) link