Mad Men (2007)
- Genre
- drama television series
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 7 seasons, 92 episodes
- Rated
- TV-14
- Rating
- 8.1 of 10 from 1,533 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
The series follows Don Draper, a creative director at a 1960s Manhattan ad agency, along with his colleagues and family. It shows their personal and professional lives as American society changes over a decade.
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What happens
Mad Men is an American period drama television series created by Matthew Weiner for AMC. It ran from July 19, 2007 until May 17, 2015, with seven seasons and 92 episodes. The series title is allegedly borrowed from the phrase advertisers working on Madison Avenue used to refer to themselves, although the only documented use of the phrase may derive from the late-1950s work of James Kelly, an advertising executive and writer. Set between March 1960 and November 1970, Mad Men follows Don Draper (Jon Hamm), a senior executive and creative director at Sterling Cooper, a Manhattan-based advertising agency. Other primary characters include Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss), Don's secretary; Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser), a mid-level executive at Sterling Cooper; Joan Holloway (Christina Hendricks), the agency's office manager; Roger Sterling (John Slattery), the agency's name partner; Betty Draper (January Jones), Don's wife; and in later seasons, Sally Draper (Kiernan Shipka), Don's oldest child. As the series progresses, it depicts the changing moods and social mores of the United States throughout the 1960s and early 1970s. Weiner first developed Mad Men in 2000 but it was greenlit by AMC several years later, acting as the network's first original series. Principal photography for Mad Men primarily took place in New York City and Los Angeles during its run and the writers conducted large amounts of research to accurately depict its time period. The series is considered the breakthrough roles for Hamm, Slattery, and Jones and helped revive the career of Hendricks. Mad Men received widespread acclaim for its writing, acting, directing, historical authenticity and visual style. It won several awards, including 16 Emmys and 5 Golden Globes. Mad Men is the first basic cable series to receive the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, winning it each year of its first four seasons (2008–2011). It is widely regarded as a key series in the Golden Age of Television in the early 21st century and as one of the greatest television series of all time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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