Mad Men: Season One
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Movie Reviews of Mad Men: Season One
Movie Review: DO NOT WATCH THIS SHOW OUT OF ORDER START AT WITH SEASON 1 EPISODE 1
Summary: 5 Stars
I wanted to just put this up here not as a review of the show because Mad Men it is awesome and if you're looking at this you probably are you know that. But please if you're new to the show listen to this warning.
you must watch this show would order to get the most out of every episode. Most television shows I feel you can skip some episodes and still derive a great quantity of joy from subsequent episodes but madmen stands apart. It is a show that I think in such a masterful way build on each previous episode. And if you miss an episode you're going to miss the reasons why certain characters act the way they do talk the way they do and do the things that they do.
for example I missed season two finale the carousel and went on to season three and I was like what the heck is going on I didn't realize it until I finished all of season three and was like something was off the whole season seemed a little bit tweaked as they were building on things that I had missed ( it is of note that the carousel was the one of the most amazing season finales that a person could miss but somehow I pulled that off I can be a bonehead sometimes)
For instance Roger Sterling has so much back story and is not even a real major player in the show but if you miss some episodes you missed the buildup to his character. Don Draper is a Shining example of someone that is touched upon and built upon in every episode.
so that is my warning watch every episode of madmen from start to finish in order.
I'm Chuck Bittner from AskACapper dot com And I approve of this message!
PS watching madmen in high definition is a must that's why recommend only watching it that way. The blue Ray looks amazing and may even be better than what you're used to watching on your cable high def channel.
Movie Review: Mad Men
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been teaching advertising and design for over 31 years. I was just getting out of high school and attending a state university, ending up being an advertising design major when all of this stuff was going on in the ad world. So, my rememberence of the time was very vivid and remember the clash of the old and new ad styles at the time and faintly remembering hearing about the book "The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit", but not reading it. I did take a couple of trips to New York at that time to do some work for the company that I was employed, and just going to New York to try and get a job in an agency. "If you make it here, you can make it anywhere" was the theme at the time, so everyone wanted to go to New York to get a job, primarily for the experience and the couple of lines on your resume that said so. This, finally, leads up to my review of "Mad Men", which I feel comes extremely close to accurately portraying what went on at that time.Visually, it is dead-on as far as details are concerned. I remember that time period looking just like that and feeling like that. I feel that as far as portraying advertising at that time and the beginning of the Doyle Dane Bernbach period is tucked in just the right way. My only slight criticism, and this is a bias since I have been part of the industry and teaching how to become part of it, I wish there were more scenes as far as how the agency functioned and maybe a couple more follow-throughs on specific accounts in the agency. But again, that is personal. Also, maybe just a little less "soap opera" between the characters, which does add to the change in women's position in the business and the real world. Enter the working woman/mother, etc. I feel that everyone should see this show. I also wish that season two would come out as soon as possible right after it is finished.Movie Review: Entertaining trip back to a different era
Summary: 5 Stars
Ah the cigarettes, the sexism, the smarmy executives, the docile secretaries, the bored housewives ... welcome to America in 1960 and specifically Madison Ave where this engrossing series is set.
We are in the macho world of advertising execs on a quest to sell the perfect product while drinking and screwing their way to perdition. Much of the fun is seeing how much things have changed. Did people really smoke that much? I felt as if I was getting lung cancer just from watching them. They light up first thing in the morning, before meals, after meals, during sex, on the train, in the car, in the kitchen, in the toilet, in the office. The whole world musty have smelled of smoke. That lovely, blond, Grace Kelly look alike with the peaches and cream comlexion must have given off the odor of an ashtray.
Were people really so sexist? Women, or rather girls, are treated totally like objects -- of desire, or more accurately of lust, of ridicule, of disdain, of pity, of scorn -- never ever as equals.
The main character, Donald Draper, is a handsome, suave and talented adman with a wife, two kids, a couple of mistresses and a secret. His secretary, Peggy Olson in an ingenue on the way up. Various other sleazy types inhabit the office. We also see Draper's home life, his lovely but bored wife Betty and the kids.
There's a lot of pleasure to be had from spotting the period references. The reconstruction of the early sixties milieu seems to be flawless. Wonderful artifacts of the period, half-forgotten, seem to pop up at every moment. But of course, we're not really in 1960 -- we're looking back at ourselves not so long ago and wondering at how far we've come -- and how far we still have to go.
This is a great series.
Movie Review: Willie Shakespeare Opens An Agency
Summary: 5 Stars
With the possible exception of Deadwood - HBO's magnificent Shakespearean noir-western - Mad Men defies easy comparison with virtually any television drama ever made. While much has already been written on the program's stunning recreation of mid-century cultural/corporate atmospherics and the big swinging casualness of its fidelity is optional lifestyle, the real focus for me is Sterling Cooper's creative chieftain, Don Draper.
He is a man of compromised emotion and is quite literally as ephemeral as the Brands he champions.
Draper's life is a canard, based entirely on an identity stolen from one of his dead Korean War comrades - with his lineage, education, breeding and comportment all fabrications in the service of his assumed identity. His wife is a prop to whom he owes no allegiance - his co-workers "necessaries" in the propagation of his fraud.
His is the ultimate fantasy played out within an industry that chews it like Pez. Draper's essence is one of physical inflection married to the danger of living in one's own head - where dialogue becomes superfluous, dangerous and far too revealing. It is the program's singular pleasure to watch Jon Hamm inhabit the role with such detached earnestness as if living on the brink of detection with every breath. His is a morality play of which Deadwood's Al Swearangen could be proud - and slightly envious.
Draper is far from the only thing in Mad Men worth watching. The entire supporting cast is outstanding led by Draper's wife Betty, played by January Jones. For me however, Hamm remains the nucleus of the program and is a tour de force.
Very highly recommended!
Movie Review: Amazing Show
Summary: 5 Stars
MAD MEN is truly amazing. It has everything that makes quality television. It takes place in the 60's and the time period is as much a character of the show as the people are. It is 100% accurate - the furnishings, clothes and THE SMOKING !! It is hilarious but oh so true of the period. Everyone smoked.
When you watch this show you are enthralled for it is one of those rare experiences today. it is not gratuitous television. It is a superbly crafted piece of art. It is glorious how each character slowly develops over the season and we learn more about them slowly as you would a person in real life. These characters become so addictive. The ensemble cast is so amazing it is difficult to pick anyone out but Jon Hamm does certainly rule the roost with his presence. But I am also sure Peter and Peggy will linger in your thoughts.
This is such intelligent television. It is of the caliber you would expect from HBO or Showtime. The historical facts are very interesting to me. They show the whole campaign and election between Kennedy and Nixon. I am 47 now so was not around for that. It is so interesting to see that Kennedy was not so overly popular when running and it shocked many when he won. The first Catholic president. My, my. I find that very timely with the election we are facing.
Nothing was spared to make this show the highest quality and the most accurate. Anyone associated with it should hold their head high and it certainly deserves all the accolades it has received.
If you have yet to view this show, don't deny yourself. It is quality tv at its best.