This was before basic cable and streaming, but it was the beginning of AMC.
I read the script, and I went, ‘oh my goodness, this is about how we got to where we are now.’
I had just finished reading that David Halberstam book about exactly this and Matt had used a lot of that for inspiration.
This is such an extraordinary piece of writing by Matt Weiner, and looking at our own culture and the sexual mores and how women were treated and how men related.