The first season is more exciting every episode, and even the ending song is undercurrent. And this play proves a truth: a sufficiently advanced screenwriter does not need to end with suspense.
What kind of person is Don? It really takes some effort to understand. After all, this is an American character in the 1960s, and the sense of age is not a good thing to cross. Don had childhood shadows, escaped his family, served as a soldier and experienced war, and later entered the very fashionable advertising industry at the time. He has a successful career, his wife is beautiful enough, and he already has two children. . . two lovers. What does he want? As if all this was not enough. All that is shown is desire, but when it is revealed, it is full of despair. Don's wife was tossed into the housewife who was going to commit suicide in the hours, but Don didn't show any pity.
That's how the story started.
"America in the 1960s" is also one of the highlights. Now it seems that every piece of women is vintage. At that time, people, both men and women, did not leave their hands with tobacco and alcohol, and they were also able to smoke when they were pregnant. Divorce is still a new thing, and it requires a lot of courage and the pressure of public opinion. Feminism is also far less powerful than it is now, with very few professional women working as typists or secretaries.
In the end, the dialogue in this play is very exciting and difficult to digest. Several times I had to go back and watch it again, and a few times I even had to re-read it with English subtitles to understand the implications. . . Of course, this is also related to the background of the times involved in this play. After all, foreign audiences like me are not their audience.
There are still two episodes left to watch the first season, and every time I watch an episode, I'm torn between "rushing to write a review" and "watching another episode right away." . . This tangle should be a tribute to a good story.
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