Mad Men Blackface Episode

Amc s mad men will neither edit nor remove an episode in which a character appears in blackface opting instead to add a content warning at the beginning of the episode.
Mad men blackface episode. Mad menis an award winning drama set in new york s competitive advertising world in the 1960s. The wildly popular amc. But before mad men gets there producer lionsgate has addressed its decision to keep an episode. Lionsgate studios issued a statement explaining their decision to keep the episode running.
In an episode that featured roger sterling in blackface last night s installment of mad men felt like the show s writers were aggressively responding to blogosphere criticism that they ve been. Unlike other tv series such as scrubs 30 rock and golden girls which have removed episodes featuring blackface from their catalogs in recent days mad men will instead feature a. This episode contains disturbing. The third episode of the third season of mad men sees roger sterling john slattery wear blackface while serenading jane peyton list with a rendition of my old kentucky home at a country.
The blackface episode features a scene in which the character roger sterling john slattery sings an. Episode three of the amc period drama s third season my old kentucky home sees the character roger sterling played by john slattery wear blackface to sing the anti slavery ballad my old.