[TV]Mad Men

[metallicorphan]

My satellite TV provider(SKY) has an On Demand service,and they had the first 3 seasons of Mad Men,so i thought i would download them and give them a go,and I have been massively enjoying them

I don't hear much about this TV series to be honest,either in the stuff i read or even on here,yet looking it up it wins a lot of awards and has some great metacritic scores

Jon Hamm,is perfect as Don Draper an ex Korean War veteran with a past,but admittedly he annoys the hell out of me sometimes with the decisions he makes(usually involving having Sex with the wrong person,LOL),and wish sometimes he would go easy on Peggy

I also love Roger Sterling(John Slattery who also played Howard Stark in Iron Man 2..yeah i know!),funniest character for me

and yes Hepcat,i do actually like Lane Pryce,as stuffy and uptight as he is I like the character(he played Moriarty in the RDJ Sherlock Holmes films)


I have also come to the conclusion that the very end scene when this series does actually finish will be Don Draper throwing himself off a building and re-enacting the opening credits


My Satellite provider didn't have Season 4 and 5 on their On Demand service(with Season 6 currently on air and I'm recording weekly),so i got Netflix,i had to anyway because of Arrested Development coming soon,and i watched Season 4 last night-13 episodes back to back!!..started season 5 this morning

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Not sure if its available in the U.S. but if you can catch A Young Doctor's Notebook from Sky,its well worth it,its only 4 episodes(22 minutes each) and has Jon Hamm playing an older Daniel Radcliffe and how he became addicted to Morphine as one of Russia's most promising new young Doctors,it's really good and funny as well

a new series is in the pipeline

[Ironrod]

I watch Mad Men. Every time I start to wonder wtf I'm doing watching this soap opera, they come up with a completely awesome episode that draws me right back in. It may be a soap opera, but it's an extremely well-written soap opera. And I was the same age as Don's daughter in the 1960s, so it's set during my childhood. The period detail is very accurate.

[Lee]

Currently one of my favorite shows on TV. Love how the characters aren't people you necessarily love, yet you pull for them anyway. They all have major flaws. Also they seem to do a pretty good job of showing the time period.

Oh, and Joan, I do love Joan.

[metallicorphan]

Just finished Season 5,with the end music track i am guessing it is now 1967(You Only Live Twice -Nancy Sinatra)

Spoiler for Hiden:

Gutted about Lane


I am actually not that impressed on how that was executed,i really wanted to see Don in the aftermath...if he did or did not tell his fellow partners that he had sacked Lane the Friday before

It would've been interesting to see Don tell his wife that Lane had killed himself,because she was the only person Don had told about him embezzling and therefore getting the sack

but no,like a lot of times a new episode starts and hardly anything is mentioned on the subject again

Unsure whether to start the season 6 episodes on my DVR(7 episodes)or wait until i have them all