Mad Men

I just discovered this AMC series, alerted when it was nominated for an Emmy. I've only seen two episodes, a rerun last week and the premiere of season 2 tonight. Both were excellent. This really captures the environment of corporate America in the early 60s. I spent my one and only year in corporate America in 1962, working for a year at Burroughs after the Army, before returning to college, and it was a surreal experience. This series captures it nicely.

The bar closest to work, where many went after 5 (if not before if you were an executive), had a time card machine at the entrance -- you stamped a card to see what price your drinks would be for happy hour. Never got close to nickel and dime nights in the Army -- a military base being where the real happy hours happen in the drinking universe -- but it wasn't too shabby for a civilian approximation.