Mad Men: Season Three
by Matthew Weiner
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Actor: Christina Hendricks, Elisabeth Moss, January Jones, Jon Hamm, Vincent KartheiserDirector: Matthew Weiner
Brand: Lions Gate
Writer: Robin Veith
Writer: Christopher Manley
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 611 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2010-03-23
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Lionsgate Home Entertainment
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Box set; Closed-captioned; Color; Dolby; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Mad Men: Season Three
Movie Review: I'm just mad about Mad Men
Summary: 5 Stars
No cable in this not so recession proof household. We have our favorite shows that don't come via the four major networks and it's cheaper to buy the DVDs than pay a cable company $70 or so every month. "Mad Men" is one of about five of my "must have" titles. As a very low echelon advertising geek for many years, "Mad Men" gives me an insight into the lives of the hotshots in the ad game. Being very familiar with advertising in the sixties, but from a newspaper perspective, some elements run true. Dressing up was true, even for a worker bee like me. (I think the worker bees are guys; they slave for the queen bees--just a way of saying I am male.) I think ties were about one inch wide then and pretty drab. I wore a very wide bright blue and yellow striped number to work one day and was actually sent home to change. Same thing happened with a pale blue dress shirt. Shirt had to be crisp and white.
The real pain with these cable shows (also, for example, "Dexter") is the gap between "seasons." It was so long a wait for me before the season three "Mad Men" DVD came out, I really felt out of touch with the plot line. Once I had my order in for season three, I pulled out the first two seasons and immersed myself in the eight disks, going through one or two disks each night (I am retired). Being of this era, and of its history, I totally lost myself in reliving that halcyon time of my life (it seems so because, after all, I was young). "Mad Men" proceeds at such a leisurely pace one becomes enveloped in not only the story but the lifestyle as well. The homes, the clothes, smoking and drinking without guilt ("major" guilt), the cars, the bars and, I suppose, the endless bed-hopping. I worked in newspaper advertising for the latter half of the sixties and with an agency from 1990 into the 21st century. "Mad Men" focuses on the behavior of what I believe were a minority of those in high (and not-so-high places). I'm referring, of course, to the massive amounts of fornication "Mad Men" implies was so absolutely routine. To be fair, the creator primarily suggests the most aggressive womanizing is by a very small number of top agency executives. To be fair, how many executives of any business report their crimes and misdemeanors to the workers? To be honest, there's always the water cooler.
This is pretty much a generic review of the entire series because I did immerse myself in all three seasons over something like ten or so nights. The seasons of "Mad Men," like the seasons of the year, flow seamlessly together. I believe each season has ended with a cliffhanger of sorts but season three, without spoiling anything, felt challenging and, therefore possibly more upbeat than seasons one or two. Season three really does help establish the peripheral characters and their stories in the "Mad Men" saga. The first disk, again without revealing plots, left me tweeting about creator Matthew Weiner having completely lost his vision for the series. By the second disk, all was right with the world again--and wrong with Sterling, Cooper Advertising. Which is what we viewers expect, and want. Season three is a tumultuous ride because, of course, the agency has been acquired by an international advertising force. If advertising is a world where you have a job one day and are hunting for one the next, Sterling, Cooper's merger escalates this trauma both individually and within the overall scope of its little universe.
I've given it five stars not merely because I grew to adulthood and finished a formal working life in this particular sphere of influence but because the drama is real, the characters are true and any viewer can relate and enter into the experience for about 45 minutes each week. Regrettably, for only about 13 weeks. And, for those of us who wait, we still have summer 2010 ahead with season four of "Mad Men" and we will twiddle our thumbs until the spring of 2011 when the season four DVD is finally released. We would have it no other way. One 45 minute episode, and leaving us hanging for a week -- I'll take my medicine one season, one big dose at a time.
One lingering lament in this rather poor review (if you wanted story details): The first season "Mad Men" DVD package was unlike any I've ever seen. The set arrived in the form of a "flip open" silver grey Zippo lighter. After months of waiting for season two, I made a poor decision to get a little extra cash by selling off some of my too large DVD collection. Selling season one of "Mad Men" was a mortal sin. Tell Peggy's priest. I, of course, had to reorder it. It was like the first edition of a classic novel: one of a kind. The reissue of season one was as drab, as sad as anything I've seen. Season two was a decent suggestion of a shirt box. For season three, you knew there had been staff cuts. The signature Sterling, Cooper old-fashioned glass was pretty ordinary. That's advertising. Win some; lose some. Anybody who kept their original Zippo "cover" should hang onto it or expect a healthy return at eBay.
Summary of Mad Men: Season Three
Returning for its third season, the two-time Golden GlobeŽ-winning series for Best TV Drama bursts with one scandalous surprise after another. Jon Hamm and the rest of the award-winning ensemble continue to captivate us as they contend with a world on the brink. Welcome to ?Mad Men? - a shocking portrait of a time that was anything but innocent. Nothing is as sexy. Nothing is as provocative. Nothing is as it seems. ?Mad Men": Where the Truth Lies.Similar DVD Movies
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