Mad Men - Season One
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 The show's brilliant, the packaging? Not so much. The show itself is fabulous. And I'm pretty sure most of the people hitting this page would agree. Otherwise, why else would you be here? You've seen the show, you love it, and you just want to know whether or not to buy the DVD. Yes, you totally should. Because the show's brilliant, and therefore you should support it. The packaging is horrendous. It looks awesome. Zippo lighter shooting out flames. The flames are the problem though. You have to be really careful taking the discs out (set up stadium style) as you're going to get your fingerprints all over them. And you have to be super careful closing the box, as the way it's set up, you end up scratching the discs.  Fun if Fuzzy Flashback I had heard a something about this show in some magazine (Wired?), and then I saw it at the store in a cool enlarged Zippo shaped case. The only reason I purchased it though was because I recognized one of the actresses from Firefly. Once I started watching I really enjoyed the 60's they created. Not sterile but controlled, chauvinistic but poking fun... Lots of lovely ladies, drinking, smoking, and some clever writing. Since it is only the first season, I suppose its only going to get better. I've not listened to the commentaries or watched the special features yet but it's cool that they are there. I will most likely purchase the next season. One note, as an Ad and Lucky Strike junky, I was very irritated from pilot where they tried to introduce the "It's Toasted" slogan by Don Draper in the 60's. It actually came out in 1917, and was more than likely closely linked to the real granddaddy of advertising Edward Bernays. They might have considered turning his life into a show, but once I started to watch the other episodes the minor deviations from facts for the sake of entertainment didn't seem so frustrating. Mad Men DVD - Special Features Series was great, 5 stars! 3 stars for the DVD only. Disapointed with most of the DVD Commentaries. Most are 2 or 3 cast or staff commentaries pieced together into one commentary which makes some of them VERY boring. VERY borng! There are a few good ones when two people are actullay doing the commentary together at the same time. Not too many other special features other than the commentaries. Mad Men Rules It doesn't get much better than this. Sometimes hype for TV shows is way overblown, but this is not so with Mad Men, which is arguably the best show on the tele since The Sopranos or Deadwood. The acting is superb, the writing divine, and the sets are magnificently realistic. If you're looking for something good to watch, look no further. This is it. See it now...before your friends tell you all about it. | |||||||||||||
