| Mad Men: Season 1 |  | Category: DVD
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 31
Format: NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
UPC: 057373200971
EAN: 0057373200971
ASIN: B00197POUO
Release Date: June 30, 2008
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 Absolutely The Best August 31, 2010
Pamela Mckinnon (Vancouver Canada)
I am hooked on this series. It is one of the best shows to be on television in a very long time. The accuracy of the representation of the sixties is remarkable. The clothing is exact, the office environment is accurate. I worked in an office such as the one represented in this show (not advertising) and I can tell you it was very much like the way the t.v. show depicts it. I think they overdo the sex side of things but sexual harrassment in the workplace was the norm, as was the smoking. I find the series very good, intense characters with depth and complex personalities especially Don and Betty Draper. They both have problems and insecurities which add to the storylines. The inclusion of current events of the time are accurate and make the show more real. I would strongly recommend this series. However, if you like "cut em up, eat em up" and modern car chases this isn't for you. This is intense complex drama and that is why it is so good. Very well done indeed.
 Well done in parts. April 19, 2010
D. Boddy
Was recommended by a friend. Having never seen an episode before wasn't expecting this 60's period drama to be quite so dark. Even though well-acted in parts not finding any of the characters too likeable.
 Love this show, the dvd not so much! August 14, 2009
Robin (Canada)
1 out of 21 found this review helpful
Got the first season as a gift from a friend because she listened to me rave about the show for hours. It seems that the second episode has no picture. There is still sound but just a black screen. So I sent it back and received a new one and the same thing. I like to have these as a collector item but noone wants a dvd that well doesn't exactly work. Still can't wait for season three to start:)
Must Have January 27, 2009
Laura Martins (Toronto, Ontario)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I'm a devoted viewer of this show and was thrilled to own this first season DVD compilation. It depicts the world of pampered ad execs at a high-profile Manhattan firm in 1961 where cocktails flow before noon and sexual harrassment is the norm. Creator Matt Weiner is a stickler for period accuracy, so everything from the fashions to the breadbox on the kitchen counter reflect the late 50's/early 60's mileu. Smart writing and multi-dimentional characters also sets this show apart. I'm always riveted as endings are rarely predictable - often shocking, sometimes poignant and always original. Main character Don Draper is the gorgeous ad exec who all perceive as the confident and unflappable creative head at Sterling Cooper. We discover, however, that he's a complex protagonist whose troubled childhood haunts him and influences his many secrets and deceits. One of his secrets is pivotal and keeps the viewer completely engaged. But despite his mistakes and flaws, the writers have created a protagonist who is inately humane. The other characters are deliciously complex as well and not what they appear to be....Can't say enough about this show. It's simply brilliant.
A fascinating caricature of a terribly odd time January 5, 2009
Jack Blatant (Ontario, Canada)
14 out of 16 found this review helpful
My father dislikes this series. I understand why; this is not an historic re-creation of the late 50's and early 60's. My father is of an age with Don Draper, he lived through these times, and he knows that they little resemble this series. The inaccuracies irk him. I understand his point, and I would probably feel the same way about a series that purported to represent the 80's.
It's funny that while people intuitively understand that futuristic stories are really about the present, they naively assume that stories set in the past are not. The show deliberately highlights things which we "moderns" find shocking - the young girl playing in the dry-cleaning bag, for example - but the time period itself is fundamentally a vehicle for plot and characterization. Anyone who imagines that this really is 1960 "as it was" is missing the point. Not that the directors are terribly clumsy about making the setting realistic, mind you - I swear they used all of my grandmother's furniture for the Draper home.
That noted, what I love about the series is the characterization. Don Draper is fascinating; Betty Draper is a bizarre mix of little girl, doll, temptress, and real person struggling to stay alive; I loathe Peter Campbell about as much as I can loathe a fictional character; and as for Peggy - well, no spoilers. Eminently watchable, intelligently written, periodically amusing, moving, and disturbing.
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