Totally dug the new season, zipped through it faster than I expected. That Aunt Ida... that scared me. That actually disturbed me a little. I felt very uneasy. Dang. Unsettling.
But after finishing the show, I started telling my mom about it to see if she could fill in a few gaps for me (they mysterious car), and found out that SHE was working at GM AT THAT TIME. She was THERE. Mind blown.
Anyway, that led to a whole conversation and we wound up starting the series. She'd never seen it before, didn't know anything about it, and I'd been wanting to see her reaction to it for years.
I was NOT disappointed. Right at the start of the first episode when Don talks to the waiter about Lucky Strikes vs Old Gold, mom just started talking "oh, your grandfather used to smoke Old Golds, he got them when he was in the service" etc. Then later on, Joan shows Peggy the "modern technology" typewriter and mom was transfixed: "I had that EXACT typewriter. That was mine." That might have been my favourite moment watching the show UNTIL the third episode, where she almost fell out of her chair laughing when BettY Draper makes those celery-and-spread party treats. Like she heard a joke she hadn't heard since she was a kid, that was just delightful, I'm so glad I could give her that little moment there.
She dug the show (we're going to try to watch some more), she just loved all the little details, "I remember that, I remember those... YEP, I had one of those" throughout the whole thing. It felt so right to her, a blast from the past, I liked that, not just having a reason to revisit the show (I've only ever seen every episode once), but to see how she reacts to it. It was fun.
It was also REALLY strange for me jumping back in time, to see what the show used to look like with those stuffier old offices and more conservative fashions... and I totally forgot how funny the show was in the first season.
Of course, she expects very bad things for Betty Draper. The whole thing about Don's identity they just dropped the first hint, so I don't think she caught on to it.