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List Price: $39.98Amazon.com's Price: $24.49 You Save: $15.49 (39%)as of 09/02/2010 12:31 EDT
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
Fabric Type: 0031398229384
Graphics Memory Size: Widescreen, Box set, Color, Dolby
Manufacturer Labor Warranty Description: 70
Maximum Color Depth: Lionsgate
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal Language
Metal Type: Lionsgate
Pearl Type: 031398229384
Processor Count: 4
Total External Bays Free: 2007
Total Firewire Ports: Lionsgate
Total Metal Weight: 1
Total Parallel Ports: July 01, 2008
Total S Video Out Ports: 600 minutes
Lionsgate
July 19, 2007
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Product Description:
Follows the lives of the workers at a 1960's New York advertising agency.
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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 cigarettes. 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 treatment 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 homosexuality 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
Stills from Mad Men (click for larger image)
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I never watched this program before I got this set on DVD. I have to say that I am very pleased with it, although this isn't the kind of show I normally like. The opening scene of the first episode really served to hook me.
The program is set in the early 1960s in Sterling Cooper, an advertising agency on Madison Avenue. The lead character is Don Draper, an executive and idea man who works at the agency. He has issues, as we find out further and further along in the series. Indeed, ... Read More
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Having seen the "Madmen Marathon" episodes this July leading up to season four, I had to see the rest! I am so glad I did. The characterizations, the sets, the costumes, the behavior chronicles the 60's to a T. The acting is superb. The plots are intricate, fascinating and I just can't get enough of Mad Men!
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Upon hearing all the hype about their new (4th) season and all the awards, I checked out Season One at the library to try and follow it from the beginning.
As there is a dearth of good drama on tv, I wanted to become a fan, but each episode left me with an empty, dissatisfied feeling, which I blame on the writing.
Many of the sub-plots are simply preposterous, e.g., the lead character stealing the identity of his dead G.I. colleague - right, like he's going to come back ... Read More
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great and captivating series. definitely worth a watch even if for no other reason than understanding everyone's conversations!
check it out :)
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