Mad Men | 
 enlarge | Director: Alan Taylor
Actors: Candice Cunningham, Emelle, Kiernan Shipka, January Jones
Studio: Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 215
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 592
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5060052415080
ASIN: B0014XVTIY
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: June 30, 2008
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 A stunning series! August 29, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
What a stunning series! The ad men of Madison Avenue portrayed here are not people one would expect to like, given their flaws and cruelties, but this is subtle television, which draws you in and makes you want to know more about them and even sympathise with their secrets and lies.
They lead lives of wantonness and drunken chauvinism which hurts all around them. It hurts to watch the submissiveness of most of the women in the series, but change is always in the air - JFK's election year haunts much of this first series - and it's that sense of impending change that makes one want, need even, to keep watching.
Mad Men is a fascinating, thoughtful and taut portrayal of how attitudes and perceptions changed in the 1960s. The production values are sumptuous, the acting and writing superb. This deserves a much better slot on the BBC when the second series is aired. In the meantime, I cannot recommend the DVDs highly enough!
 Mesmerising TV August 8, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a fascinating series. It initially focuses solely on an elusive ad man, Don Draper, his work and family life. But gradually the focus spreads to all those he works with and particularly, his wife. The acting, writing and directing is superb, mature and subtle. Each episode is like a brilliant play, gradually revealing more about their lives. It explores the sexism and racism of the age, with hints of the changes that will occur in the years to come. Stands out against the fast paced TV programmes that are so popular. This is intelligent, thoughtful. And it looks fabulous as well.
Loks great, and you'll have plenty of time to appreciate that. August 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Got to agree with a lot of what's been written already. For a start, it look stunning! But it's just as well: the plot's slow. Very. The characters are brilliant, as it the scripting and acting. But nothing much ever seems to happen. It's not going to have you sitting on the edge of your seat or wondering what's going to happen next where you're day dreaming at work. But it says a lot that despite this, it's perfectly enjoyable.
A great insight into the world of the mad men of the 60's, and beautifully executed for what it is, but not a series you'll be talking about a couple of years after you watch it.
 Nothing happens August 1, 2008
3 out of 15 found this review helpful
I started to watch this on BBC4 and the first episode was quite good............. However that was it. Nothing else happened for the rest of the series.
When i first saw it advertised it was being compaired to "The Sopranos" because it was written and directed by Matthew Weiner, the two have nothing at all in common (you may as well compair "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" and "James Bond" who were both written by Ian Flemming).
It did however have some good points, the cast and script were good and it was nicly filmed.
If your looking for something where not alot happens and it just plods along then this maybe for you but it really wasn't my sort of thing.
Mad Men July 6, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Matthew Weiner is the exec producer/ writer/ creator of this incredible emmy award winning show. Weiner, who was a writer on the Ted Danson vehicle "Becker" at the time (can you believe that?), sent the script for the pilot of "Mad Men" to David Chase ,creator of the sopranos, winning a writers contract on the strength of it. He went on to write classic episodes (they're all classics) like "the Blue Comet" and "Chasing It". After the Sopranos, HBO , the cable network that also gave us "Deadwood", "The Wire" and "Sex and the City" as anyone reading this will know, passed on the opportunity to produce "Mad Men". This does annoy, allowing for the fact that the show is almost perfect, the larger operating budgets that HBO could have offered compared to AMC, the american cable network that were smart enough to snap the show up, might have put the show up there with "The Sopranos and "The Wire" but I'm writing for Amazon and not the New York Times, so what do I know.
It is set in 1960 at the end of the Eisenhower presidency in the fevered ad world of Madison Avenue. America, and especially our cast of characters are on the cusp of a new era. Season one exists in the limbo just before the righteous onslaught of feminism and the sexual revolution.
The men of Sterling Cooper write their copy in the embrace of martini after martini and this reviewer can highly recommend watching the show accompanied by period specific cocktails as well, the laconic pace and gorgeous visuals of the show can act as a dear friend to a lonely drunk of a certain stamp. Not me.
Buy this. I love it.
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