'Mad Men' Star Elisabeth Moss Plays a Nerd Girl With a Twist -- New York Magazine

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The Retro Women Of Mad Men Are The Most Interesting On TV ["Mad Women]
Published 7/21/2008 by SadieStein at Jezebel
... week. You probably know the drill: pitch-perfect period drama set in a 1960 Madison Avenue ad agency; lives of quiet desperation in the 'burbs. But it's more than rad sheath dresses and fogs of Lucky smoke; paradoxically, this man's-world retro-universe has spawned the most interesting crop of female characters since The Women , as explored by recent articles in the LA Times , Washington Post , and New York Magazine. The rundown, sans spoilers, cause we're nice like that: 1. Peggy : The naive young secretary-turned-copywriter. Perennially underestimated and watchful. 2. ...

Elisabeth Moss in New York Magazine Talks About Mad Men's Peggy
Published 7/22/2008 by Joe B. at I Am A TV Junkie, A Blog For The Clicker Jockey
... She tells Emily Nussbaum: “She’s Jack Lemmon, she’s Ernest Borgnine in Marty, the one who is stepped on a little bit and has a really good heart,” Moss tells me. “You want her to succeed, you want her to do well. She’s definitely very ambitious, the way a lot of us are, but the last thing she would do is trample anyone to get to the top.” It's just really interesting that she exists in the early 1960s, because she's such the fish out of water compared to office ...