Anyway, if you are the kind of lit teacher I had in school, which I think and hope you are not, the kind who gives the students dank, depressing, boring modern works which go nowhere and in which nothing happens except the characters exuding angst (examples: Ernest Hemingway, Joseph Conrad, Evan Connell, John Knowles), then I would say run, do not walk, towards Mad Men, because it's exactly that sort of thing.