Madmen

Tony Meolas Loan Spell · Aug 10, 2010

Quality TV. With plot, storylines, characters, attention to period detail, EVERYTHING.

Im so surprised I missed this first time round.

That is all

8ace · Aug 10, 2010

Christina Hendricks

Herne Hill Seagull · Aug 10, 2010

8ace said:
Christina Hendricks

What he said. Reason enough to watch it, even were the sound f***ed and all the other characters replaced by motionless cardboard cut-outs.

Wilko · Aug 10, 2010

Told you would like it mate, looks wickerd on blu-ray too innit.

Tony Meolas Loan Spell · Aug 10, 2010

Wilko said:
Told you would like it mate, looks wickerd on blu-ray too innit.

It is IMMENSE. No other word for it. Blu Ray just tops it of as well innert.

Soton Seagull · Aug 10, 2010

I Sky+'d it on BBC thinking it was the 4th series starting only to find out hey were running it from he start again. Most disappointing.

Top show.

folkestonesgull · Aug 10, 2010

I'm a bit obsessed with Betty at the moment (january jones)

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house your seagull · Aug 10, 2010

my favourite show.

Lyndhurst 14 · Aug 10, 2010

Great reminder of what life used to be like before all the PC cobblers – you mean you could actually smoke in the workplace?

Tony Meolas Loan Spell · Aug 10, 2010

Two CRACKING birds. Christina and January!

8ace · Sep 8, 2010

Series 4 starts tonight 10.00pm BBC4.

Tony Meolas Loan Spell · Sep 8, 2010

8ace said:
Series 4 starts tonight 10.00pm BBC4.

Yes it does. I have series 3 to catch up on and Im Sky + series 4.

Regret I did see a couple of spoilers for series 3 which I am not going to share for those that havent seen the second let alone the third.

keaton · Sep 8, 2010

I have to say i've given this programme two goes and really don't like it. I watched the first three episodes just thought it was dull and like watching an aftershave or perfume advert for 45 minutes at a go

Tony Meolas Loan Spell · Sep 8, 2010

keaton said:
I have to say i've given this programme two goes and really don't like it. I watched the first three episodes just thought it was dull and like watching an aftershave or perfume advert for 45 minutes at a go

Its a SLOW burner Im afraid. It rewards viewers who keep with it. Something will happen in one episode and then it will be another two or three before its touched or elaborated on again.

Eg in the first series so Im not giving anything away here, a bloke on the train calls Don Draper, Dick, and says I havent seen you since '56 or whatever. Don looks confused and its left there...but in a later episode (about 3 or 4 later) its revealed what the "confusion" is all about and events that come about from this.

Captain Haddock · Sep 8, 2010

Tony Meolas Loan Spell said:
Quality TV. With plot, storylines, characters, attention to period detail, EVERYTHING.

Im so surprised I missed this first time round.

That is all

Great call. I too missed it first time around and have been enjoying catching up with it.

Encapsulates its time and place perfectly and has good character development, acting, script / storyline, costume, etc.

Especially noteworthy is the drinking / smoking at work culture, the dullard nature of Don Draper's wife...pristine and empty.

Great artwork on the poster / opening titles too (as above).

:thumbsup:

8ace · Sep 8, 2010

Bouncy bouncy bouncy

folkestonesgull · Sep 9, 2010

Series 4, first episode last night on BBC HD was immense, I have just finished watching series 3 on a dodgy Thai DVD, so good to see it in HD, though Betty has got too skinny!

Couldn't Be Hyypia · Sep 9, 2010

Superb TV but you do have to get through the first half dozen episodes in Series One to get into it. Worth the effort.

Series 4 very promising last night - apart from the intrusive background music that wasn't there before or at least wasn't laid on with a trowel. Also, much more recognisably the sort of ad agency I started worki in in 1988. Series 1-3 was more like the early agencies run by OXbridge Grads and making money because they personally knew the clients. Series 4 showing us the rise of the creative.

Gwylan · Sep 9, 2010

Only just started watching this. Borrowed Series 1 from my sis and now have to buy the other series as it's not available on demand :rant:

I'll probably catch up with series 4 in 2011.

I must say that the characters would be much more pissed given the amount of drinking. I became a journalist at the tail-end of the lunchtime drinking culture and regularly saw people totally ratted by 3.00 in the afternoon. The characters in Mad Men drink heroic amounts with seemingly little effect - that part is unrealistic.

folkestonesgull · Sep 9, 2010

Gwylan said:
Only just started watching this. Borrowed Series 1 from my sis and now have to buy the other series as it's not available on demand

I'll probably catch up with series 4 in 2011.

I must say that the characters would be much more pissed given the amount of drinking. I became a journalist at the tail-end of the lunchtime drinking culture and regularly saw people totally ratted by 3.00 in the afternoon. The characters in Mad Men drink heroic amounts with seemingly little effect - that part is unrealistic.

I want to respond but dont want to spoil it arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Also, series 2 is a bit dull (writers strike time?) but persevere because 3 is awesome

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