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Mad Men - The Complete 1st Season (3 Disc Set)

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The ambition of this show is jaw-dropping – and it's a real pleasure to know that (unlike so many pedigree shows) there are more seasons of double-dealing, adultery, corporate skullduggery and the roller coaster which was the Sixties yet to come. Excellent.

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Set in 1960 New York City Mad Men explores the glamorous and ego-driven “Golden Age” of advertising where everyone is selling something and nothing is ever what it seems. And no one plays the game better than Don Draper (Golden Globe – winner Jon Hamm) Madison Avenue's biggest ad man – and ladies man – in the business.

Episodes:
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Ladies Room
Marriage of Figaro
New Amsterdam
5G
Babylon
Red in the Face
The Hobo Code
Shoot
Long Weekend
Indian Summer
Nixon vs. Kennedy
The Wheel

Special Features:
Slipcase Packaging
Audio commentaries by various cast and crew on selected episodes
2 behind-the-scenes featurettes

Review

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

Release date Australia
November 26th, 2008
Movie Format
DVD Region
  • Region 4
Director
Language
English
Series
Supported Audio
  • Dolby Digital Stereo
Genre
Box Dimensions (mm)
135x190x14
UPC
9317731065965
All-time sales rank
Top 1000
Product ID
2634026

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