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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: Lions Gate EAN: 0031398229384 Format: Widescreen, Box set, Color, Dolby Label: Lionsgate Manufacturer: Lionsgate Number Of Items: 4 Publisher: Lionsgate Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 01, 2008 Running Time: 45 minutes Sales Rank: 47 Studio: Lionsgate Theatrical Release Date: July 19, 2007 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 07/01/2008 Run time: 616 minutes Rating: Nr Amazon.com: Stills from Mad Men (click for larger image)
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 Rating:  - Well directed sleeper hit has signficant flawsAMC's sleeper hit, "Mad Men", is garnering rave reviews. Although the directing is masterful, especially the cuts, and the mood lighting is excellent, both the pseudo-sophisticated writing and the casting are naive and uninformed. The cynical show suffers from the lack of even one major character who could be viewed as a person of integrity. Maybe the author intends to indict the advertising profession? Maybe he intends to present a vacuous domestic life of the 50s and early 60s? Whatever his ... Read More Rating:  - Wonderful. Great series.Thoroughly enjoyed this DVD at a great price. Can't wait for the second season to come out on DVD. Rating:  - Skip it; go directly to Season TwoThe first season of Mad Men, while showing some promise, for the most part just meanders and bores. The production values and acting are there, but the writers just aren't. Far too often they equate creepy with dramatic, which obviously is a false identification. The proof is also in the fact that you can skip the first season and go directly to the second and miss at most one or two important scenes (which aren't even really that important). Which is exactly what I recommend you do. Season ... Read More Rating: - THE OPENING CREDITS ALONE ARE ENOUGH TO MAKE ME LOVE THIS SHOW!Four reasons to watch this: 1. Jon Hamm is unbearably sexy. 2. The sets, clothing and other depictions of the era are perfectly done but not overwhelming. They don't take on more importance than the story itself. 3. The characters are complex, human, complicated. No one is a caricature or a cartoon. Everyone, even some minor secretary whose purpose in the show is to have sex with a major character, is shown as complex and human. 4. The story lines are intriguing, compelling, ... Read More Rating:  - The Emmy and strong reviews must reflect how BAD (perhaps MAD) most TV shows are these daysWe watched 2/3rds of the first season. All of the episodes were slow paced. Often excruciatingly slow paced. The show seems to be (really IS) mostly about smoking (mainly at work), drinking (mainly at work), and extramarital sex (mainly at work). Oh yeah - each and every character (including the children) is unhappy and behaving in a way that will lead them and those around them to greater unhappiness. Unless you are somebody who worked in this kind of environment and are looking for some nostalgia (and ... Read More |
