Zu dieser entsetzlichen Marketing-Kampagne zu „Mad Men“ hat Andrew Hammel vor einer Weile mal ganz passende Worte gefunden.
God knows, the German television landscape is full of lowbrow (g) shtick complete with ass-staring jokes. But Mad Men isn’t lowbrow, it’s high-middlebrow. (This is, by the way, the level of brow that Germany seems to be incapable of producing itself). People who tune in looking for crude humor are going to be quickly disappointed, and will tune out after 20 minutes.
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Perhaps if Germans began actually taking well-made high-middlebrow television seriously, they’d finally be able to create some of their own…
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