▶▶▶ Mad Men: Season One

Mad Men: Season One Review

So been shopping around for a new series since The office has jumped the shark. this dude on facebook kept writing recaps the new season of Mad men on his updates. So I decided to check it out,start from the beginning.
It is a soap opera ,but a good one. Unlike a soap opera the writing is not empty and the characters are more than cardboard cutouts. Like Don who wants to love his wife and family, but doesn't know how, because he doesn't grasp what love truly is .
And roger the big mouth who is digging his own coffin and partying constantly because he has nothing else left. And betty an accomplished woman who resents being a housewife and makes everyone around her suffer for it.
You can see this desperation in everybodies eyes like they can't stand being stuck in these dumb molds society put them in one more minute.
I love looking at the clothes. The colors are so bright, they hit you in the face.Because I didn't live in this era and the few pictures I have of my grandparents and family during this time are in black and white. So you can't see the vibrant colors.Like what color ball gown so and so was wearing.
It really bothers me some of the things people say to each other.Even though I know people talk like this, then and now.
Like Roger telling a female friend who is his right arm that she is the finest piece of ass he's has ever had, or how one character tells peggy who is slightly chubby , and she should enjoy the crude comments made by execs while they last, cuz she isn't much to look at.
The only quibble I have is the dvd doesn't come with many perks. Like their is no way you go back and look at scenes. And they don't tell you what the episodes are about.

Mad Men: Season One Overview

Follows the lives of the workers at a 1960's New York advertising agency.

Mad Men: Season One Specifications

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)