Mad Men - Season 1 (2008, DVD)

Great ebayer and a great set of DVDs. Wonderful writing, great acting. So fabulous. Highly recommend.

My wife is in advertising so seeing the way things were in 1960 blew my mind. Great story line and great charactors. Can't wait for season 2.

Mad Men is one of the best shows on television discussing life in 1960's America. The show does a excellent job of showing the how Jon Hamm's character (Don Draper),the White-male with the great job and the great salary is still unhappy with his life. Also the show describes how Elizabeth Moss's character (Peggy) struggles with being a woman in 1960's America. Peggy in the first season of the show is constantly being hit on and sexual harassed by the male executives in the office.

The show does an excellent job in showing society's attitudes about sex at the time. When Peggy goes into the doctor's office to get contraceptives, the doctor says that he will not continue her prescription if she sleeps with a lot of men. But Jon Hamm's character at the same time has multiple affairs with several woman and he is considered a stud.

Season 1 of Mad Men does a great job of discussing the life of professional white men coming into the city from the suburbs, the struggles that woman had to go through at the time and the beginnings of the hippie movement and Civil Rights Movements. I hope that Season 2 continues on in doing a good job in describing this time in American history.

I loved Mad Men on TV and wanted to see it in more detail so I purchased it. I would give it 5 stars as being one of the most realistic and captivating series I have seen in years.

It is an interesting portrayal of the life and career of 1960's advertising men and their families in New York. The main character is suave, debonair, ladies man, Dan Draper, a veteran of WWII, decorated with the Purple Heart. Dan is smart, funny and has everything going for him, a great job, beautiful wife and children. Dan commutes by train to NYC every day to his job on Madison Ave., called in the trade as a Mad Men. Dan's life and past are full of secrets which are slowly divulged throughout the episodes. Dan is living a life of quiet frustration.

This is a glimpse of life in the 1960's where women wore dresses, hats and gloves to work and men wore suits, lies and wing tipped shoes. Life looked proper and respectable, but was it?

Rarely does a program capture a time period the early 60's as well as this series. The writing is outstanding. The cast is pitch perfect. This program not only brings our resent history to life, but also shows us that it is still possible for ground breaking acheivements in television.