Mad Men is a compelling insight into the harsh reality of life in the 60s perfectly portrayed through the dealings of a prestigious ad agency in New York's Madison Avenue. This was the era of astonishing sexism homophobia and the last golden years of the guilt free cigarette as mass consumerism took hold and helped form the American dream. This stunning thirteen episodes series drips with atmosphere and is a sophisticated no holds barred drama from the producer of The Sopranos.
First off, Mad Men is a show so visually gorgeous that watching it on BluRay would be like teleporting into the early 60s. However, this show is not just beauty, it's got brains. Matthew Weiner (who wrote and was one of the producers in Sopranos later seasons) brings the sixties back on a Madison avenue advertising office. Weiner's script is so real- he does not flinch from the blatant feminism, sexism rife in that era. We're almost thrust into this office at the same time as the new girl-Miss Peggy Olsen (played brilliantly by Elizabeth Moss).
Although Miss Moss is very much a main player, the main character is Mr.Don Draper, a man with a huge appetite for work and women (acted with perfect calculation by the dashing Jon Hamm). He's an enigmatic wunderkind in the advertising business, where his bosses are old dragons with large offices and larger appetites. This season broadly peels back Don's layers, offering us a view of the different man he is at home and at work. We see Don how he sees himself, and we see how other people including his wife Betty (January Jones) and the men under him in the office including the very ambitious Peter Campbell (a perfectly-cast Vincent Kartheiser)
The set, the wardrobe and the music cannot go without a mention. All speak to Weiner's attention-to detail. You'll see when you return to it again and again why it deserves it's three times winning 'Best Drama' Emmys and Golden Globe awards.
Mad Men is not a blockbuster where you earn gratification without investing yourself in the story and characters. This isn't just a t.v show, it's a gripping slice of the past holding up a mirror to our present and questioning if we've come very far at all.
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The complete first season of the Golden Globe-winning TV drama from 'Sopranos' writer Matthew Weiner, set in a prestigious advertising agency in early 1960s New York, where sexism is a way of life and everyone smokes like a chimney. In this highly competitive, all white, male-dominated environment, the indefatigable Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is the top ad executive, but there are plenty of young guns eager to topple him from his perch. The episodes comprise: 'Smoke Gets in Your Eyes', 'Ladies Room', 'Marriage of Figaro', 'New Amsterdam', 'Five G', 'Babylon', 'Red in the Face', 'The Hobo Code', 'Shoot', 'Long Weekend', 'Indian Summer', 'Nixon Vs. Kennedy' and 'The Wheel'.
Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play. In MAD MEN the glass ceiling is dangerously low and sexism reigns in a way that may shock modern viewers. But this isn't the prim '60s of THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW; Weiner's characters seduce smoke and swig with abandon--often within the walls of Sterling Cooper.
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