Mad Men - Season One |  | Actors: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, Christina Hendricks
Studio: Lionsgate
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Format: Widescreen, Box set, Color, Dolby
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 600 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.6 x 1
MPN: 22938
UPC: 031398229384
EAN: 0031398229384
ASIN: B000YABIQ6
Theatrical Release Date: July 19, 2007
Release Date: July 1, 2008
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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. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION Rating: NR |
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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.System Requirements:Running Time: 600 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 031398229384 Manufacturer No: 22938
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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
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 Orgasmic TV? November 16, 2009
Mary S. Spangler (Schaumburg, Illinois)
Modern advertising encourages people to buy what they don't need, with money they don't have, to impress people they don't know. It is a dirty but fascinating business that these people tapped for the funniest program that is now on TV. I rented the first series and I will rent it again so you may want to purchase it.
The extras are fantastic. November 15, 2009
mimi (North Haven, CT United States)
I love this show, but I did not see all of the first year. I just finished disc one of season one and it was fantastic. 3 shows with a total of five commentaries. two for the first, two for the second and one for the third, rotating cast of commentators. There is also information on the musical scoring. This is a fantastic value and engrossing story telling.
 It All Went Downhill After This... November 4, 2009
Natasha Conn (Las Cruces, NM USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
If you're interested in all the buzz about Mad Men, this is the set to invest in.
All the smokey intrigue and tension generated by the life of Don Draper, a 1960 ad man at NY's Sterling Cooper firm who holds a devastating secret, is contained in season one. After this, things kind of went astray; the show turned its focus to the bland lives of the office workers and Don's lifeless wife, inconsequential subplots came and went, the pacing grew ever more glacial and self-infatuated, and as I write this season 3 limps to its end, the show a mere shadow of its former glory. Stick with season one, when it truly deserved the (now-hollow) moniker: "The Best Thing On Television."
"Amazing" a word heard throughout the audio descriptions. November 2, 2009
Andrew B. Hurvitz (Van Nuys, CA USA)
It is not a good thing to admit that since I purchased this DVD set, I have spent the last two weeks watching every episode and listening to every audio narration by the stars, director, producer and costumer involved in the outstanding show. Yes, I am consumed by the world, the writing, the look and the characters in "Mad Men" and I believe that creator Matthew Weiner's program will go down in television history as
one of the best ever.
One of the hallmarks of the show, is the articulate, clever and erudite dialogue spoken by the characters.
That is why it rankles and annoys me that the word "amazing" is used ad nauseum throughout the audio narrations. It is spoken by Weiner, in such sentences as "Look at this outfit. So amazing". Or by a director, "This actor, his performance is so amazing." Or an actor, "The writing is so amazing." Or when speaking about a cinematographer: "His camera work is amazing." The paucity, degradation and vapidity of the English language, as it spoken in 2008 (when the DVD was produced) contrasts so vividly and poorly with the higher intelligence of speech that once came off the lips of English speaking men and women in the early 1960's.
But despite the ever odious presence of the word "amazing" there is quite enough in this DVD to satisfy the most crazed MAD MEN fan.
Was ANYONE happy in 1960? October 25, 2009
C. R. Swanson (Phoenix)
If there's one thing I've learned by watching "Mad Men", it's that apparently NO ONE was happy in 1960. The men weren't happy and didn't know how to express it because they had to Be Men, and the women weren't happy because they were expected to be little more than mindless serving women. No one could talk about what they felt or what they really wanted, morality was subjective, and freedom was something you had only if you were a WASP, and even then it was the freedom to ONLY be a WASP and nothing else.
"Mad Men", as you doubtless know, tells the story of a group of advertising executives at a New York ad firm in 1960. The men, and they're almost all men, are kings of their domain, but are starting to sense the early stirrings of a peasant uprising. It's this - the conflict around the upcoming rise in freedom and equality for gays, women and blacks - that forms the basis of a lot of the most interesting stories in this show.
The acting, directing and cinematography are all suberb. The plots are intelligent and well-written. You'll even pick up a thing or two about advertising!
I hadn't seen this program on TV, nor seen any episodes of it. I bought this DVD set purely on the strength of what I'd heard about it. I was not disapointed. It may not be the best TV show of the last ten years ("Battlestar Galactica" wins that prize), but's supremely excellent and highly recommended!
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