Peggy Olson, played by Elizabeth Moss. She plays Mad Men's first female copywriter. (AP Photo/AMC, Frank Ockenfels)
Buckle up, pop culture fans.
We've got one heckuva worlds-colliding weekend coming up.
First, is the maniacally anticipated release of
The Hunger Games in theaters this weekend.
But another drama-filled pop sensation is happening, too. It's a little show called
Mad Men -- its highly anticipated two-hour premiere is set at 8 p.m. Sunday on AMC.
If you've watched any morning shows or read any entertainment blogs, you'll have seen plenty of dish on the 1960's drama, set in the once glamorous world of New York City's Madison Avenue advertising boom.
The booze flowed freely, it was OK to smoke cigarettes
everywhere and no one talked about anything. Ever.
Fast-forward 50 years, and we can't shut up.
Opinions are as easy to come by today as a pop of Johnnie Walker Red was for breakfast back then.
So it comes as no surprise that show runner Matthew Weiner had to
cut a song from one of Season 5's new episodes because of a nit-picky factual inaccuracy.
It seems that several members of the press, who received a screener of the debut episode, pointed out that a song used in the episode, Dusty Springfield's
The Look of Love, was released in 1967. Six whole months after the show's timeframe.
You can't get anything past my fellow media people. They know everything.
Weiner issued a kind reply to the journalists who cover TV, writing: "Although we take license for artistic purposes with the end-title music, we never want the source music to break from the time period we are trying to recreate."
The best part of
Mad Men is the writing, but the atmosphere plays a huge role in making this show an addictive delight.
So, I suppose that song selection was a huge faux pas for those who remember every detail of the '60s like it was yesterday.
How important are details to
Mad Men? Should they be 100 percent accurate, or can artistic license take over a bit?
