The point of the show is to have large numbers of attractive people smoking cigarettes because the tobacco companies are no longer allowed to advertise on TV.
It really should be titled “Lucky Strikes Presents Mad Men”.
I still do wonder how accurate the ad presentations are with respect to how they went down in real life. The Kodak Carousel presentation was just awesome.
Mad Men has the same point as any other soap opera: A pretty distraction for the bored and listless. This one is just really pretty. And the characters aren’t constantly talking about what’s happening so you can read anything you want into anything that happens.
I think of it like the Sopranos and I hope it has as unsatisfactory an ending. Actually, I’m 100% confident it will.