Mad Men is a show know for its deliberate pacing and slow building seasons. As someone who also likes to take things slow, Emily is a big fan. She has been an avid Mad Men viewer since she first found the series, and the countdown to its finale is not going to be easy. To help distract from the fact that in just five days the last ever new Mad Men episode will air, Emily has decided to celebrate a truncated Mad Men Week, impersonating characters from the now-iconic series.
Countdown 1: Peggy Olson
Countdown 2: Joan Holloway
For a return to our Fast Friday series, who better for Emily to impersonate from Mad Men than poor Michael Ginsberg. Brilliant, creative, odd, and ultimately very sick. During his run on the series, Ginsberg moved a mile a minute: from one ad idea to the next; his ideas flying off the page and stacking up in folders that were quickly five inches thick. Don is inspired and pushed by him, Peggy is mystified but impressed with his output, and the whole agency benefits from his manic brilliance. Sadly, the introduction of a computer is one step too far for this already fragile mind and whatever latent psychoses Ginsberg has (there are theories) are brought to the surface and take him over. What his co-workers had always treated as his oddities are revealed to be the warning signs of a man with serious mental illness.
Since it seems likely that Ginsberg will not be seen again during the run of Mad Men and that we will hear no more of what is happening to him, we here at My Slow Mo Cat offer our sincere hope that he found the help he needed and returned to some form of creative work; for which he is clearly impeccably suited.
Emily Paying Tribute to Ginsberg:
Countdown 2: Joan Holloway
For a return to our Fast Friday series, who better for Emily to impersonate from Mad Men than poor Michael Ginsberg. Brilliant, creative, odd, and ultimately very sick. During his run on the series, Ginsberg moved a mile a minute: from one ad idea to the next; his ideas flying off the page and stacking up in folders that were quickly five inches thick. Don is inspired and pushed by him, Peggy is mystified but impressed with his output, and the whole agency benefits from his manic brilliance. Sadly, the introduction of a computer is one step too far for this already fragile mind and whatever latent psychoses Ginsberg has (there are theories) are brought to the surface and take him over. What his co-workers had always treated as his oddities are revealed to be the warning signs of a man with serious mental illness.
Since it seems likely that Ginsberg will not be seen again during the run of Mad Men and that we will hear no more of what is happening to him, we here at My Slow Mo Cat offer our sincere hope that he found the help he needed and returned to some form of creative work; for which he is clearly impeccably suited.
Emily Paying Tribute to Ginsberg:
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