Attention Vincent K (Connor) fans...

[shadowkat]

Apparently the actor is now in the AMC series Mad Men - and recently discussed that role and ATS here:

http://www.tvguide.com/news/070816-01

Wales and I tried Mad Men and couldn't make it through the pilot - bored us and the sound was weird. But others on my flist and critics in general seem to adore it, so what do I know? ;-)

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[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Our difficulty with it was we just couldn't make out what the people were saying half the time. They mumbled. We also felt that it was a tad over the top with the sexism and racism in places. But mostly? I think my friend and I had troubles with the premise to begin with...1950s isn't a time period that interests me for some reason. It's one of the reasons that I keep procrastinating writing this story I have in my head about my my great cousin on my grandmother's side of the family - about 1/4 of the story would take place in the late 1940s, early 1950s - meaning that I'd have to do a lot of research on a period that doesn't interest me in the slightest. It's also why I struggled with a lot of the entertainment, clothing, music and other trends of the early 00's - front end of Bush's reign - all retro 1950s. Now, we've finally moved some of that - thank god. The one period in history that I find deeply bland and dull is the 1950s. I love the periods before it and the periods after it.

It's very odd - there are two historical periods that I don't like that much and always groaned when I was forced to read about them, study them, or deal with them:

1. Medieval Period or Middle Ages - also known as The Dark Ages
2. 1950s

1700s also get on my nerves, but that's only because it was the only historical period we seemed to study from kindergarten to the early fifth grade. When I lived in PA - we'd do the explorers up to the Revolutionary War, then the next year, do it again, then do it again. It wasn't until I moved to KC that we finally started studying a different period - and I fell in love with social studies or history - to an extent that I came thisclose to making it my major in College. The period we flipped to?
The Hebrews in ancient times, then we jumped to Elizabethan Times and English History.

At any rate - for some reason or other, I find the more culturally conservative decades uninteresting.

Good to know Mad Men didn't get much better. The critics seem to adore it for some reason. I prefer Burn Notice on USA which is opposite and stars a very hot Jeffrey Donovan and Bruce Campbell (of Briscoe County Jr, Bubba Hutpec, and Evil Dead fame). I adore Bruce Campbell. The man has the art of understated acting down.