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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Yawn; better spend time watching a series where something happens 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.
Fantastic writing, sharp acting, and attention to detail 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... more info
Seen it? Mad not to. 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... more info
Period Drama - American Style! I'm not hugely fond of giving five star reviews - reviewers on user-content-driven sites like this site tend to over-apply it for (frankly) mediocre content, thus diluting its meaning: if the majority of items reviewed are five star-rated, what about the really good stuff, 6 stars perhaps? Top ratings should only be applied to outstanding work; conversely, only the utterly abominable should receive the very lowest scores. With all that in mind, I believe the AMC series "Mad Men" to be one of the truly... more info
