Does anyone else feel like Mad Men was influential on Tarantino's creation of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood?
Both are about the end of an era. As Sean said on the 2019 pod episode, “This movie, it's not a spoiler at all to say that it is about a transitional moment in American history and in the history of the city that we live in and to show us essentially a breaking point and what could be inside that breaking point.” Similarly, throughout Mad Men, the characters contend with the cultural and societal changes arising in the sixties as the show progresses onward to the seventies: the 1960 election, the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK's assassination, the assassinations of MLK Jr. and RFK, the Vietnam War, and Apollo 11.