Unlike the US Superbowl ads, which have a wildly celebratory tone, here in the UK we’ve lately developed a grotesquely over-sentimental streak about Christmas, centred mainly around ads for supermarkets. And like everything else here they offer up a paradox; no longer about flogging oven chips or peas, they’re about vague concepts like loneliness and […]
Published on November 14, 2014 23:51