Final (?) thoughts.
The show just didn’t have the look and feel of Mad Men. And if the Mad Men fans didn’t warm to it, what was the target audience?
The musical crap, I blame Glee, just killed long stretches of the show. If you want to play “It’s My Party” in the background, okay. But to basically stop the show for someone to lip-sync it, that’s not going to work.
They brought in Colbie Caillat to sing it. She may not mean anything to you or me, and she’s ten years too old to play the 17-year-old Leslie Gore, but she’s a huge signing star who did her own version of the song. The music, none of which was lip-synced to originals, was one of the best parts of the show.
It sounds like “Playboy Club” actors will have company at the NBC unemployment office, as Hank Azaria’s new sitcom “Free Agents” just got the axe after only 2 episodes.
I have always liked Hank Azaria, especially from his role on “The Birdcage” and of course his many voices from “The Simpsons” although I always kind of wanted to know what happened in his VERY short-lived marriage to Helen Hunt. (who for some reason I have pegged as a very conceited, full-of-herself kind of person)
The thing about Mad Men is that not only does it look amazing thanks to the top-notch production design, it’s astoundingly well-written. (Not to mention well-directed and well-acted.) The writing is superb, on all levels – dialogue, construction of an episode, episodes across the arc of a season, and across the arc of the series. That’s why I watch.
Anything that tries to emulate it only by copying its surface details (time period, kitschy costuming, etc.) is totally missing the point.
Seasons 1-4 are available on Netflix instant view.
Mad Men also features a few episodes at a Playboy Club, in one of the later seasons.
If so, Heard’s really committing to the part. She’s been in a relationship with the same woman (photographer Tasya van Ree) for three years now.
But you are correct that Heard has said she’s dated men and women in the past.