Mad Men: Season 2
by Matthew Weiner
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Actor: Christina Hendricks, Elisabeth Moss, January Jones, Jon Hamm, Vincent KartheiserDirector: Matthew Weiner
Writer: Robin Veith
Writer: Christopher Manley
Audio: English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 611 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-07-14
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Mad Men: Season 2
Movie Review: Overrated period soap opera without much story....
Summary: 3 Stars
STYLE OVER SUBSTANCE.
Alright. Many people say it's a subtle "character study" and the acting is superb, but even their performances don't make up for the sheer lack of story advancement in this series. NOTHING HAPPENS. And that's a shame because the potential is clearly there. It took me two seasons to even begin to care about these characters. To be honest, after watching the first season I didn't care if these whiney white folks got hit by a bus, I almost wanted them to because then at least the story would advance.
Critics and college educated audiences latched on to it as "intelligent" TV in a wasteland of prime time crap, and I admit it, MAD MEN is far better than much stuff out there. But I think time will prove that this show isn't near the achievement that the critics crow it to be. It deseves some praises for originality, but as original as it is, this not truley riviting to me as the Sopranos, Six Feet Under, Rome, or Deadwood. It's a mellowdramatic period soap opera which pretty much floats by on its few strong qualities (ie. acting, style) but aside from some clever dialogue the writers take it nowhere. Why? Because really how far can it go? The show is about New York/5th Aveneue M(Ad) Men and the women who love them all living in a glass house during a pivotal period in America. The men are "mad" in the sense that they drink and smoke in their offices - these characters are also intentionally designed not to have any of the political or even moral correctness we think of ourselves as having in the 21st century...I get the charming ironies, duh, but the problem is these charactors can never really go "mad" at all. They can never go really do anything interesting because they have to balance the tension of the corperate world and the lusty humanity undernieth that wants freedom. Draper can never escape for good like he wants to because the series would end. So where's the danger? The "dangerous" situation involving a character's possible suicide in the end of Season 2 is waaaay too contrived.
My point is this show is all about repression and believe me IT GETS OLD. If the characters can't DO ANYTHING in terms of action on the show, all they can do is whine whine whine. White house wives whine about their cheating husbands having nervous breakdowns that mysteriously recover from (Mrs Draper from the first season - her hands shake and then we never hear of her condition again???)
I assumed an event that happened in the second season had already happened in the first season. There's a difference between story telling is charmingly absteract and completely misleading.
And the revelation Donald Draper makes at the end of the first season is way to forced and predictable. Give me a break and lets see the characters earn their epiphanies.
A bit of a one-trick-poney,
not divine, but a good show
and worth seeing to make your own oppinion.
I hear it is beautiful on blu-ray though, and I believe it. Beauty was never one of this show's problems.
Summary of Mad Men: Season 2
Set in 1960s 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. Returning for its second season, the Golden Globe?-winning series for Best TV Drama and Actor continues to blur the lines between truth and lies, perception and reality. The world of MAD MEN is moving in a new direction -- can Sterling Cooper keep up? Meanwhile, the private life of Don Draper becomes complicated in a new way. What is the cost of his secret identity?
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