Mad Men - Season 1-7 [Blu-ray]

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Mad Men: Season Three Blu-ray delivers stunningly beautiful video and great audio in this must-own Blu-ray release Christmas Comes But Once a Year": 1) Joel Murray and Alexa Alemann; 2) Weiner and Michael Uppendahl Earth Day 1970 (HD, 3 Mins.) - This focuses on the start of the movement that wanted to make the planet better, ecologically.

The Final Season Part 2 - Audio Commentaries, Generation Boom: Baby Boomers, Earth Day 1970, Unmarried Professional Woman, Laurel Canyon and Advertising Timeline. Engulf yourself in the 7-series phenomenon Mad Men, which follows the dynamic events which take place in Manhattan, New York, on the wealthy Maddison Avenue. There aren’t any technical issues, either. There is a fine layer of grain, however, which actually adds some authenticity to the show, and in a way adds to the period detail. Still, ‘Mad Men’ works overwhelmingly well as a remarkably-detailed period drama, a fascinating glimpse into the birth of modern corporate culture, and a tragic study of manipulation and greed. I can’t guarantee everyone in TV land will enjoy its slow pace and niche subject matter, but I can definitely say it deserves all the attention and accolades it has received over the last year.

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Widely labelled as one of the greatest television series of all time, Mad Men is an unmissable piece of live-action American period drama. Assemble your Mad Men collection Medgar Evers: An Unsung Hero runs over 70 minutes, split into two parts, and details the pioneering efforts of this largely forgotten civil rights hero. Mad Men Illustrated (14:01) looks at the work of the wonderfully named Dyna Moe, whose illustrations mimic the opening title graphics look of Mad Men. Mad Men has garnered intense critical acclaim, becoming a multi-award-winning series and sustaining a massive 7 seasons across its time on air. With its impressive collection of Emmys and Golden Globes, this incredible show has cemented its place as one of the all-time greats of the late 2000s, alongside such hits as Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead - a bold but supported claim.

Establishing Mad Men (HD, 62 minutes) -- If eighteen hours of commentaries aren’t enough to satiate your supplemental appetite, then cast your eyes upon this meticulous, high-def look behind-the-scenes. Covering the writing of the first episode through the careful design of each set and costume. Plenty of interviews are included and the cameras are granted a rather revealing glimpse of the production team pulling together each episode of the show. This is a must watch for any ‘Mad Men’ fan and should probably be viewed before breeching the show’s commentaries. From the first episode through the final credits of the season, ‘Mad Men’s colors are naturally saturated, contrast is comfortable and strong, and shadows are deep and well-delineated. The series’ warm palette holds up exceedingly well in spite of a variety of interior and exterior lighting schemes, allowing the characters’ yellow-hued homes to look every bit as good as the firm’s brightly lit offices. Detail has also been painstakingly preserved, imbuing the picture with crisp edges, clean patterns, and sharp textures. I continually marveled at the depth of the image and found myself entranced by everything from the creases in the firm’s leather chairs to the stitches and pinstripes in Draper’s suit coats. While a few random shots look a tad soft compared to the majority of scenes in the show, Lionsgate’s BD transfer really highlights the series’ critically acclaimed research, set design, and period accuracy. There's a certain delicious irony to the way creator-writer Matthew Weiner chooses to start off the fourth season of his groundbreaking series Mad Men. When the show became a critical darling years ago, newcomers to the early 1960's world of (fictional, if only barely) advertising giant Sterling Cooper thought Mad Men was an odd, if captivating, recreation of a storied time in American history, highlighted by an appealing if enigmatic turn by Jon Hamm as Sterling Cooper's "boy wonder" Don Draper. Only very slowly over the first season ( too slowly, according to some wags) was it revealed that Don wasn't exactly all he pretended to be, and in fact it turned out he wasn't even really Don. While that underlying mystery of who exactly was this lead character never quite rose to the mythic heights of some of the labyrinths woven by Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof on Lost, for example, it gave Mad Men an interesting subtext that tended to undercut the shiny new patina that seemed to coat a lot of the series' façades. And here Weiner meets that conceit head on, with Draper seemingly freeze-framed as we hear an offscreen voice intone perhaps the most pertinent question the series has ever asked.Everything in ‘Mad Men’ has an almost three-dimensional level of texture, from the different fabrics (and metals and plastics) used in both the costumes (particularly Joan’s outrageous getups) and the set design, to the way everyone’s hair is so expertly coiffed. This texture is wonderfully strong here. Skin tones look amazing. Colors vibrantly pop. Shadows are deep and inky. Everything looks divine. The Final Season Part 1 - Audio Commentaries, Technology: 1969, Gay Rights, The Best Things in Life Are Free, Gay Power, Trial of the Chicago Eight Part 1 and Trial of the Chicago Eight Part 2.

Bringing for your pleasure the critically acclaimed television series Mad Men. Zavvi is proud to invite you to explore our broad range of high-quality branded merchandise from this 2007-2015 hit sensation. Enter the intriguing world of Maddison AvenueTime Capsule: Historical Events of the 1960’s This is a really cool little feature. Basically, it lets you go through each episode, if you stop on an episode, you can then look and see a small video or series of images pertaining to the historical importance of that episode. Sometimes it’s something as simple as “The Top 10 Television Shows of 1962,” or sometimes it’s heavier like “Space Race” or “Cuban Missile Crisis.” This is a wonderful feature and one that I hope they take forward with future seasons of ‘Mad Men’ (season 3 is even more historically centered). There are two main dramatic thrusts at work in ‘Mad Men’ (at least at this point, in season two): One, will Don Draper ever get his shit together, stop cheating on his wife, and open up about his mysterious past? (Spoiler alert: his real name is not Don Draper.) Two, how will our characters and their lives buttress and collide with the tumultuous historical events swirling around this period. The two complement each others in certain ways, and the show always walks a fine line in terms of what it’s telling us (about history, about the characters) and what it’s keeping from us. Unlike many drama series on television today, it isn’t necessary to suffer through the first few hours of ‘Mad Men,’ waiting for the story to hit its stride. From the opening volley of the first episode, viewers are thrust into the sexist, racist, and anti-Semitic culture that dominated American corporations in the early ‘60s. Business executives were WASPs, housewives were the naïve property of their husbands, and working women were secretaries, sex objects, and office play things. Weiner doesn’t pull any punches, exposing the show’s fictional firm for what it is -- an impenetrable boys’ club whose existence is fueled by other successful boys’ clubs. As a result, the show’s plotlines, character development, and central themes generate plenty of unsettling reactions that make it difficult to root for the whole of Sterling Cooper’s greedy and distasteful workforce. Show your advertising skills by building your own collection of Mad Men merchandise to show off to your friends and family.