Product Description
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Matthew Weiner, a writer and executive producer for THE
SOPRANOS, may have set this series in the picture-perfect 1960s,
but his characters are just as scheming as the mobsters on his
last show. Mad Men begins in 1960 on Manhattan's Madison Avenue
at the fictional ad agency of Sterling Cooper. Creative director
Don Draper (Jon Hamm) rules the halls of his company and the
hearts of every woman he meets, while his wife, Betty (January
Jones), struggles to be the perfect mate and mother back in
Connecticut. Star Jon Hamm, Elizabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser,
John Slattery, Christina Hendricks, January Jones, Bryan Batt,
Robert Morse Special Features: 4-Disc Set Special Packaging Full
Frame Widescreen Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Subtitles -
English, Spanish Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary
Runtime: 616 minutes.
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Welcome to a world where Monday has a three drink minimum. Mad
Men exists here and it's a fabulous place to visit, back before
Betty Friedan's Feminine Mystique really made much of an impact
and before the Surgeon General put warning labels on s.
It was an America on the brink of social explosion and Mad Men,
which tells the story of a group of Madison Avenue advertising
executives in the early 1960s, captures that surface stillness
perfectly, complete with the growing tension barely contained
below the surface.
The show succeeds on every level. HBO famously passed on Mad Men,
created by former Sopranos executive producer and writer Matthew
Weiner. AMC picked it up, and thank goodness they did. From the
first episode, Season One becomes an essential, utterly addictive
television- watching experience. Beautifully filmed and
masterfully written, the show manages to present the period
honestly but with little nostalgia, and as soon as you get over
the constant smoking, drinking and of women as little
more than "girls" who get coffee and answer the phone, the
complexity of these characters (especially the dashing Jon Hamm
as Creative Director Don Draper) will leave you completely
captivated. Season One features clandestine office romances,
shadowy pasts, a ton of adultery, closeted sexuality and a
lot more drama that seems risqué even for 2008. But again, one of
the most impressive things about Mad Men is that everything is
executed with absolute class, style and elegance. And bonus for
the DVD viewer: Like The Sopranos, Mad Men has a ton of little
moments and hints leading up to character revelations and plot
twists that make watching the episodes over and over continually
rewarding. –-Kira Canny
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