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MAD MEN is one of those series that is almost impossible to praise too highly. It is also one of those series that puts on demonstrate the inherent superiority of television to the movies. That is a sentiment that I earn offends many, but one that more and more thinking men and women are coming to embrace as television gradually turns out one amazingly luminous series after another. Cinema is inherently puny on how mighty an individual movie can enact in developing a complex story fair as it is dinky in how deeply it can stare character. The reason is obvious: a lack of time. Delving deeply into the lives of a group of characters is a luxury movies simply can’t afford. The clock is ticking.
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MAD MEN will, when it is finished, be a yarn of the sixties. Season One begins in 1960k, shortly before the Kennedy-Nixon election. Season Two moves almost two years ahead of that. Subsequent seasons will recede the narrative ahead by a couple of years each time, before coming to an slay at the waste of the decade. The sixties was clearly the most worthy decade of the twentieth century. The world of 1970 has more in approved with today in many ways than it did to 1960. The changes in our attitudes can scarcely be assessed. At the beginning of the series women all have their spot in the office as servants to the men, earn passively their roles as view candy and objects of sexual innuendo, and aspire to no more than inspiring up the secretarial faulty. A glad man in the office is so completely in the office that he seems oblivious to his homosexuality. But by the raze of decade would reach the Stonewall riots and the Second Wave of the women’s movement would be in pudgy bloom.
One of the dominant themes of the indicate is the incompatibility between the world of today and the world of “then.” One of the most striking moments in Season One comes when Betty Draper’s daughter runs into the living room wearing a body length plastic launderer’s bag. Betty sharply upbraids her, hoping that this doesn’t mean that her laundry is laying on the floor. To fresh sensibility a child wearly a deadly plastic abominable is plain. Or in a leisurely season episode Don Draper allows his completely drunk boss to leave his house with a drink “for the road.” He merely smiles when he shouts, “That’s my car!” as Roger drunkenly tries to accept his bear. A pregnant woman at a party can be seen smoking while holding a martini glass. One of my common Indignant MEN scenes comes in Season Two, when after a picnic with his wife and kids, Don shakes the blanket they have all been sitting on, leaving the paper and trash on the ground. It all highlights some of the progress we have made in discipling some of our more indefensible behavior.
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As others have renowned, the expose centers on several ad executives at the Sterling-Cooper advertising firm. In particular, the film focuses on Don Draper, a brilliantly creative ad exec who has been honest as inventive in recreating himself as he has been in promoting the products of the firm’s clients. A serial adulterer, the child of a prostitute who died giving birth to him, and the son of an abusive father, he has had to pull himself from his humble origins to the top of his profession. All this while protecting his fill dusky secrets. Don Draper is a tremendous character, perhaps the most archetypal character to have arisen since Tony Soprano. And it provided the opportunity for overnight stardom for Jon Hamm, a previously only marginally successful actor who had mainly been eminent by a string of very shrimp parts on various TV series and exiguous budget movies. But it is impossible to imagine anyone more perfect for this role than Hamm and series creator Matthew Weiner agreed after seeing his audition tapes. When the network insisted that Hamm be passed over for a more established actor, Weiner declared that without Hamm he was not willing to disappear forward with the series. Weiner won and Hamm went on to collect a Golden Globe and an Emmy nomination (which he should have won) . As portrayed by Hamm, Don Draper is the complete embodiment of Thoreau’s individual who lives a life of peaceful desperation. Draper is a world of contraditions. At times unscrupulous, he is also first-rate of large magnanimity and apt rectitude. A womanizer, he yearns for the ideal home.
The cast is stuffed with huge characters and improbable performances. I absolutely detested Vincent Kartheiser as Connor on the series ANGEL, though even then I suspected it was more the plan he was written than his performance. Though he isn’t asked to invent acts of mettlesome do on Exasperated MEN, he is exceptional as Peter Campbell. Like Don Draper he alternates from petty, self-serving moments to acts of kindness and loyalty. He is respectable of being wonderfully protective of Peggy Olson, a woman with whom he has had a couple of moments of physical intimacy, though he can also behave viciously towards her. John Slattery is outstanding as Roger Pleasant, the number two man in the firm and the son of the Sterling-Cooper cofounder. Robert Morse, the mountainous Broadway musical star of the sixties (including HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING), plays Betram Cooper, the head of the firm. The almost unbearably pleasing January Jones (at one point in the season worthy is made of her resemblence to Grace Kelly, and she is dazzling enough to effect it not a droll compliment) . Not to jump ahead to Season Two, Jones performance over the two seasons as Don Draper’s trophy wife Betty is noting short of lustrous. Betty is someone who detests her life as a glorious manikin, but isn’t able to finish happiness because she doesn’t know who she wants to become. She also provides many of Season One’s enormous moments, none better than when she starts killing the carrier pigeons of her next door neighbor with an air rifle (with cigarette dangling from her mouth) after he tells her children that he will ruin their dog if they don’t retain him out of his yard. The radiant Christina Hendricks (who wears some padding to originate her figure more Rubenesque and who was fantastic in the recurring role of Saffron on the Sci-fi series FIREFLY) plays Joan Holloway, the office manager.
After Don Draper, however, my celebrated character on the reveal is Peggy Olson (Elizabeth Moss) . The series actually begins with Peggy’s first day as a Sterling-Cooper employee. Starting off as Don Draper’s secretary, she soon shows that she has skills as a writer, and soon becomes valued as a copy writer with a sensitivity for products that appeal to women. I’ve told friends that I contain that by the extinguish of the series Peggy will actually be the head of Sterling-Cooper. I deem the centrality of Peggy to the explain was shown partly by the prove commencing with her first day there and with her unprecedented penetration of the all male hierarchy of the corporation. Viewers may peer that she gains weight over the course of the year, especially during the last half. In fact Elizabeth Moss gained no weight. All changes were the result of very sophisticated create up art and padded clothing.
MAD MEN is one of the most beautifully designed shows you’ll ever hope to search for. It may be surpassed by BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and PUSHING DAISIES in art originate, but no exhibit on television rivals it in clothing. The inspect of the demonstrate is impeccable. If you don’t remember the sixties, you can relive them by watching this expose.
This is a point to that anyone serious about quality TV has to know well. I’ve watched Season One twice and idea on rewatching Season One and Two as soon as the latter has finished. Angry MEN is also an example of a original trend in television, a series that tells more or less a unified legend over the course of its life. LOST and BATTLESTAR GALACTICA both are doing this as well. All are must-see shows.
Mad Men is one of the best shows I have ever had the pleasure of watching.
Watching this exhibit on blu-ray has been something I will remember for quite some time. I missed the unique airing of the note when it came on, and I was looking forward to watching the blu-ray. Once I watched it I feel in savor.
As far as a blu-ray goes, this is perfect. The video is wonderful, same with the audio, and it is stuffed with extras, including over 18 hours in audio commentary. There is another extra that is 1 hour long that is VERY favorable, and I recommend checking it out after you do watching the series.
Overall Rating – 5/5 Stars
Video – 5/5
Audio – 5/5
Bonus – 5/5
Story – 5/5
Bottom line? Steal now!
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