When 36-year-old Park Sloper Jenn Palumbo bonded with her 65-year-old father over AMC’s “Mad Men,” he told her he loved the 1960s-era advertising drama because “the men could smoke and drink at work, and the women were second-class citizens.”
“That’s funny,” she told her husband. “I actually think the men are the weak ones and the women are strong.”
Despite a setting that buttons down ladies in corsets, pencil-line skirts and suffocating gender roles, many female fans of the series, which enters its fourth season next Sunday, say it offers one of TV’s most psychologically complex, compelling portraits of modern femininity.
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