I started watching Mad Men a few days ago. Maybe I finally felt an urgency to watch it as it is leaving Netflix on July 31, 2025. The end of the 1st episode took me back to the time I fell in love with My Fair Lady.
Sometimes we end up watching things chronologically backwards. That’s what I am doing with Jon Hamm - I have watched him on The Morning Show and recently in Your Friends and Neighbours (appreciated how Apple TV+ added the extra u in the title for Canadian consumption). And of course, I cannot skip any of the Skip The Dishes ads Hamm does! And that was how it was with Jeremy Brett. I watched an older version of him as Sherlock Holmes on BBC religiously each week. There were a bunch of us children obsessed with the tv series. Then I saw My Fair Lady in which there was this character Freddy who was smitten by Eliza Doolittle, and he looked so familiar. It turned out to be a younger version of Jeremy Brett! When I shared this info with the other Brett-as-Holmes fans, they were all seriously disappointed. He looked undignified pining after a woman who was pining after another man.
Holmes would never ever do something so silly!
After the 1st episode of Mad Men ended with ‘On the Street Where You Live’, I got all nostalgic. And I realized what a sincere job Brett did as Freddy. He is so believable as this infatuated young man, and that song was just perfectly picturized on him. Now, I wish Ms Doolittle had gone for Freddy instead of the pompous Professor Higgins!
Some of us are guilty of yearning after unavailable people. I guess it is romantic in a tragic way. Sometimes we are like that with movie stars. We can get so passionate about them even if they are blissfully unaware of our existences.
Go Freddy Go. Never stop singing your song.
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