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Mad Men - Season One | 
 enlarge | Actors: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, Christina Hendricks
Studio: Lionsgate
Category: DVD
List Price: $49.98
Buy New: $30.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  77 reviews
Sales Rank: 26
Format: Widescreen, Box Set, Color, Dolby
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 616
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
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
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
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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 Amazing Show August 17, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
Madison Avenue Shakespeare August 15, 2008
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 it's extramarital everythingness, the real focus for me is Sterling Cooper's creative chieftain, Don Draper.
He is a zero-emotion man of conflict and quite literally as ephemeral as the Brands he champions.
His entire life is a canard, based entirely on an identity literally taken from one of his dead Korean War comrades - Draper's lineage, education, breeding and comportment are all fabricated 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 based on it. Draper is a man who swallows all the oxygen in the room when he enters and it is the program's singular pleasure to watch John Hamm inhabit the role with such anal retentive 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 amoral nucleus of the program and is a tour de force.
Very highly recommended!
 Requests prohibited August 14, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Great show. But spending $32, I should be able to fast forward when I want and skip all the commercials.
Outstanding Show August 13, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Love the show It it told like it was in the 60's. Racism,poor treatment of women as it was then
Thoroughly Enjoyable! Utterly Satisfying! August 12, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The first Mad Men episode I watched on AMC was the first episode in season two. I enjoyed it so much I ordered the first season on DVD so I could get the history before the next episode aired. Season one was so good I finished it in two days!
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