Last night's "Mad Men" featured a story that was handled with greater nuance and sociological import back when it was first presented on the "Dick Van Dyke Show" fifty years ago. Oops, was I not to notice that?
Then, I thought I'd check out Billboard's TV presentation of the best current performers in pop music. For all I could tell, they lip-synced to pre-recorded music. The musicians were just there as props, pretending to play their instruments. It's like that strange young woman who "sang" the National Anthem at the last inaugural I suspect that she really can't sing and she had the Marine Corps Band there to pretend to play.
Read John Cheever's short stories sometime and you'll see what they are aiming for, badly, with the "Mad Men" nonsense, which is all the rage with the East Coast pseuds; and never listen to pop music again. Scan the independent rock charts and download some songs from true musicians and singers.