Mad Men meets 50s era sci-fi. I'm unclear exactly what year the show takes place, but it hardly matters as the show is decidedly ahistoric. This is a parallel version of the 50s where we didn't just land on the moon but were able to quickly subdue it for human colonization to the point that we were selling real estate on it.
This show reflects a 1950s era sensibility in which men are bread winners, and there's no better way to win that bread than don a suit and sell something.
But wait! Were real estate prices as suffocating in big cities in that era as they are today? Didn't we not go to the moon until 1970 when society was more populated with hippies with long-hair? Again, best not to think too much about historic details.
The series anachronisms' are tied together quite well anyway under the umbrella of 50s-era sci-fi where writers were coming from uncertainty about what the space age would bring.
It's not until the show's 5th episode that anything crucial really happens to the plot but what drives the series is that it has a strong sense of place and time and the heavy hitters--Billy Crudup, Alison Pill, Hank Azaria, and Susan Heyward (not the Oscar-winning actress from the 40s and 50s)-infuse the drama so well.
This show reflects a 1950s era sensibility in which men are bread winners, and there's no better way to win that bread than don a suit and sell something.
But wait! Were real estate prices as suffocating in big cities in that era as they are today? Didn't we not go to the moon until 1970 when society was more populated with hippies with long-hair? Again, best not to think too much about historic details.
The series anachronisms' are tied together quite well anyway under the umbrella of 50s-era sci-fi where writers were coming from uncertainty about what the space age would bring.
It's not until the show's 5th episode that anything crucial really happens to the plot but what drives the series is that it has a strong sense of place and time and the heavy hitters--Billy Crudup, Alison Pill, Hank Azaria, and Susan Heyward (not the Oscar-winning actress from the 40s and 50s)-infuse the drama so well.