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 enlarge | Director: Alan Taylor
Actors: Candice Cunningham, Emelle, Kiernan Shipka, January Jones
Studio: Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Running Time: 592 minutes
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 Engrossing and challenging January 8, 2009
This show is perfect. It delivers on all fronts: dark humour, brilliant dialogue, thought-provoking discussion on fundamental human decency, friendship and love. All of this is done against a novel backdrop of a golden-decade in American advertising. br /br /Do not expect this to be light-viewing. Viewing this is about as challenging as viewing The Wire. The show will require attention from start to finish. It will kick-in in your psyche only midway into the first season. After that, though, you will already be swearing by it and nagging your friends and family to see it. br /br /Another recommendation: look out for an upcoming show by HBO. It will be similar to Mad Men and will focus on a high-flying team of financiers and the golden era of hedge funds.
Fantastic January 1, 2009
The story is told slowly, carefully, as if the writers are pulling mollases. It is engrossing and addictive, subtle and profound. We are hooked.
Madmen...I'm sold. December 31, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Living in China, I rely on word of mouth, magazines or amazon reviews to pick up TV series that I cannot watch for myself. The two English TV stations in my region are poor, and they overun the adverts making watching any TV show an absloute nightmare. Madmen, sat in my basket for quite a while until I decided at 11 pounds it was a good bet. br /br /Being a huge fan of West Wing, and lately the Wire, I was impressed to note some of the reviwers comparing Madmen with those classic shows (In my humble opinion West Wing pips the wire, by a short nose as the best TV series ever?. I also took note of the bad reviwes where people complained that nothing happens, well as with most new series you need three episodes to get into the plot, charaters and the pace of things, judging before that time, is pretty premature. Madmen is slow, and perhaps a bit like me, watching the first three shows, you may be wondering what the fuss is all about, but the more you watch, the more absorbed you become as a complex story line starts to unravel in front of you. In short, Madmen is a great show, it is well worthy of 5 stars, it does not quite get close to the Brilliance of the West Wing in my humble opinion, but then again, I doubt much ever will? Madmen, is very well put together, the cast, the set, the pace, lighting and script its all there, you just need to find time, to give this a chance. I am delighted that there is a Madmen season two, and plans to shoot a third series, because you can certainly see that this has legs, and I for one, cannot wait.
 Yawn; better spend time watching a series where something happens November 23, 2008
2 out of 24 found this review helpful
After seeing that this won an Emmy for best dramatic series, I decided to buy it. I hadn't seen it on TV, and watch most series on DVD. I got through 3 1/2 episodes, and, with nothing at all happening of any interest - aside from all the blatant attempts to constantly remind the viewer that it was 1960 - I gave up. I don't see the point; the characters are cardboard cutouts, the dialog is flat, the storyline, or what little there is, is uninteresting. Others like it, and it's beyond me why.
Fantastic writing, sharp acting, and attention to detail October 21, 2008
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Forget the Wire, forget the Sopranos, forget the West Wing, all of which have been called 'the greatest TV show in history'. The true deserving winner of that mantel is Mad Men. Created and produced by one of the lead writers of the Sopranos (who incidentally was hired on the back of his spec script for Mad Men), the series, unsurprisingly, holds the same preoccupation of that show; the seedy underside of the American dream.br /br /The true glory of this show is also what may put some viewers off. Everything is underplayed, every scene cariied in small moments which betray the truth of the individual characters. Everything in this show exists in sub-text. It is perhaps the first TV show ever that does not feel the need to spoon-feed its audience with exposition and big dramatic pay-offs. However, this is not to say that the writing lacks pace, structure, tension or emotion, it has all in abundence. As a writer myself I am stunned by the construction that exists in the show. Some viewers, as a result, may find things slow moving, however, in truth it is not, it just has greater depth. If you care about drama, if you want to see writing at its peak, watch this show, you won't be disappointed.
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