AR Master on 17/10/2009 at 21:49
The magic of the series is that it is not about feminism, or civil rights, or the 60s counterculture, or even about the glories of smoking and drinking at work, but about the way large scale change creeps forward and creates a mood of threatening unpredictability that undermines our sense of comfort and identity. I believe it is no accident that the series came to fruition in the past few years; I think we are living through a period of equally chaotic change today, following a similarly chimeric prosperity, and that this sense of fluidity has produced a madness comparable to that which is still awaiting the characters in the series (the current season being set in 1963, the year of the JFK assassination).
