Mad Men

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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over Binding: DVD EAN: 5060052415080 Format: PAL Label: Lions Gate Home Entertainment Manufacturer: Lions Gate Home Entertainment Number Of Items: 3 Publisher: Lions Gate Home Entertainment Region Code: 2 Release Date: 2008-06-30 Running Time: 592 Studio: Lions Gate Home Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 2007
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Fantastic Comment: The story is told slowly, carefully, as if the writers are pulling mollases. It is engrossing and addictive, subtle and profound. We are hooked. Customer Rating: Summary: Madmen...I'm sold. Comment: 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. 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. Customer Rating: Summary: Yawn; better spend time watching a series where something happens Comment: 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. Customer Rating: Summary: Fantastic writing, sharp acting, and attention to detail Comment: 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. 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. Customer Rating: Summary: Seen it? Mad not to. Comment: Once upon a time, American imports were prime time television in the UK. Far more watchable, by and large, than home-grown programming. The difference is, only the better US series make it to the UK. And they still do. From House to West Wing, Damages to NYPD Blue, Battlestar Galactica to The Wire. These are the ones that came to mind without any effort at all. Any UK programmes that can compete with these are few, far between and shown for about six episodes at a time. Problem is, a powerful lobby exists that bemoans any US shows airring at the most watched times. So, they are either shown on minority channels which still only a minority can receive or at incredibly late or early hours. Which brings us to Mad Men, which is known by so few because broadcasting times are in the wee small hours or on BBC4. The acting is superb, the writing is very sharp and subtle and the production values are top notch. Is it for everyone? No. Some will think it too slow or lacking in punch. But unlike Eastenders or Coronation Street, this has the thread of realism running through every scene. Not being about in Sixties America, I can still empathise far more with that than the thoughtless soap based not a few dozen miles from where I live. Or would someone rather watch a full DVD series of Casualty. No? Thought not. The amazing thing is, a Channel 5 executive can realise what the BBC can't. Who says the licence fee is wasted or that the mob at Broadcasting House are overpaid and under talented! Mad Men is believable and has to be seen to be believed. Televison should always be this good. The pity is that it isn't. More Reviews