BBC’s ‘The Hour’: A Cold War enigma, layered in ’50s style
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Maybe the haze believed to be "Mad Men's" excess cigarette smoke is instead exhaust fumes from a fritzy time machine. Television's attempts to transport viewers back to the world of institutional sexism, racism, hi-fis and highballs may succeed as retromania and light social studies, but they often fail to fully sate the viewer's fixation on 1964 or 1962 or 1956.
So many people apparently want even more of the back there, back when, back then. It's a grief we must work through; one salve is to find mid-century teak consoles above which to place one's flat-screen TV and then command it to seek out high-def shows set in yesteryear.
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