6. There’s a crisis line of the second season: it’s when you watching some really good show, like this one, and you recounted all about it in the first season review, and you start watching the second one, and it is just as good (though, it may seem it’s a little less good, but it’s just that you got used to it) – and therefore you find yourself void of words to describe your impressions, and so you’re sitting in front of the blank page, desperately trying to think of something not too miserable. And then you start talking about the stories.
7. Primary plotlines concern mostly Don Draper’s family life, his personal issues (connected with the past), the company’s merger with a bigger european player, and also lives of Pete Campbell and Peggy Olson as well. All of them are beautifully maintained. Pete’s evolution pleased me most of all: by the end he finally understood his own desires, and that’s worth something. Peggy grows really fast professionally, but diminishes her emotional being too much; I wonder what it will come to. Piece of Don’s past revolving around his predecessor’s wife actually surprised me; his family crisis went amazingly interesting, especially Betty’s unstoppable development (which came to some certain point, but it’s definetely not the finale one).
8. The solutions are very much lifelike, including small ones, like when one of the Smiths announced that he is homosexual – the reaction of the people present really made me laugh. But the authenticity of the show is pretty obvious, besides, I’ve mentioned it earlier.
9. All that is left to say: I do enjoy the series – the funny moments (though there are few), but mostly – the dramatic moments, the best of which is the conversation between Pete and Peggy in the end. Hope, it will be so hereinafter.
Year: 2008
Created by: Matthew Weiner
Directed by: Tim Hunter, Andrew Bernstein, Lesli Linka Glatter, Jennifer Getzinger, Phil Abraham, Michael Uppendahl, Alan Taylor, Matthew Weiner
Written by: Matthew Weiner, Lisa Albert, Rick Cleveland, Andre Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton, Robin Veith, Jane Anderson, Marti Noxon, Kater Gordon
Filmed by: Chris Manley
Actors: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, Christina Hendricks, Bryan Batt, Michael Gladis, Aaron Staton, Rich Sommer, Maggie Siff, Kiernan Shipka, John Slattery, Mark Moses, Alison Brie, Julie McNiven, Robert Morse, Joel Murray, Deborah Lacey, Peyton List, Melinda McGraw, Patrick Fischler, Crista Flanagan, Myra Turley, Gabriel Mann, Audrey Wasilewski, Missy Yager, Talia Balsam, Patrick Cavanaugh, Sarah Drew, Anne Dudek, Edin Gali, Colin Hanks, Melinda Page Hamilton, Samuel Page, Laura Regan, Alexa Alemanni, Ryan Cutrona, Joe O’Connor, Maggie Siff, Darby Stanchfield, Marten Weiner
№ of episodes \ ep. length: 13 \ 47:00
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