What are some common modernist themes found in both T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" and the TV show Mad Men?

There are a number of modern themes in both of these that give them commonality, despite the difference in time period for their settings. The themes of alienation, fear, ennui and decay are said to be post-war themes explored by Eliot in The Waste Land which occurs in the wake of the first world war. Mad Men, on the other hand, begins in 1960, just after the Korean War and well after the end of World War Two. But the same themes apply. The fact that The Waste Land is about European culture and Mad Men is about America culture does not seem to matter significantly in this comparison. The phrase "Hurry Up Please It's Time!" is an English idiom referring to closing time in a pub, what we'd call "the last round" in America. The repetitive use of this phrase in the second section of the poem, "A Game of Chess," speaks to the themes of ennui and decay, the tendency for men of the war generation to drown their sorrows in alcohol, a theme very much present in Mad Men as well, as we see characters like Freddy Rumsen and Donald Draper affected significantly by their overuse of alcohol. In England pub culture is also to some extent about male bonding, whereas in America it is more likely to be associated with the seduction of women (a common theme in Don Draper's life).