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Emmy and Golden Globe winner for Outstanding Drama two years in a row MAD MEN is back for a third series of one scandalous surprise after another! Led by master manipulator and renowned ladies’ man Don Draper (Golden Globe® winning Jon Hamm), this glamorous, sophisticated, smoke enveloped drama follows the sexual exploits and social lives of the ruthless and fiercely competitive professionals of the Madison Avenue based ad-agency Sterling Cooper.
Don and the rest of the equally ambitious and merciless young ad-executives are contending with a world on the brink. As they prepare for the agency’s 40th anniversary, Betty has her baby but Don finally reveals his true identity – what does this mean for their troubled marriage?
Welcome to Mad Men – a shocking portrait of a time that was anything but innocent. Nothing is as sexy. Nothing is as provocative. Nothing is as it seems…
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56 of 61 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Mad Men continues to be excellent drama. For fans, series 3 will be must-watch TV. Those who find the series somewhat static would not see anything here to change their mind. Although the series does build up to a very dramatic final couple of episodes interwoven with the Kennedy assassination. Stuff happens, the writers just take time to make their dramatic point. No different to the Sopranos really.
Don and Betty dominate the story lines. I must say, though, I increasingly liked the story threads that came out of the other characters. I perk up when Pete, Peggy, Sal and Roger are on screen. Jon Hamm's anxious, slightly constipated expression can be a bit wearing, though friends continue to insist on his handsomeness.
Series 3 has some good fun with the Brits, coming to spoil the July 4th celebrations. The British agency is called Putnam, Powell and Lowe. (David Puttnam, of course, a Brit - from an advertising background - who took over an American film studio, with not very good results). Although some of the Brit characters are fairly ghastly, one can't say they are more so than the Americans. Treatment is fair and often funny.
Race relations is a recurring theme in this series, My Kentucky Home a standout episode. (Wish I could dance like Vincent Kartheiser.) Pete's suggestion of integrated advertising also a great scene. Mad Men buzzes when this character is in motion. Don, of course, doesn't like to dance.
There is also plenty of screen time for the drama of Don, Betty and family - young and old. Less interesting to me, although the young actress playing the daughter does a great job.
The pleasure remains in the details - the supporting cast, the natty 60s clothes, the colours of the sets and, of course, the excellent script.
'I'm Peggy Olsen. And I want to smoke some marijuana.'
Know the feeling, girl!
If you missed the series on TV, and you were a fan of 1 and 2, I think most would enjoy 3 just as much. Though some of the initial novelty of the show has gone, of course. If you haven't got the dvd, the chance to own the series on blu-ray is also massively appealing. There haven't been many shows more suitable than this for the blu-ray treatment. Enjoy!
Don and Betty dominate the story lines. I must say, though, I increasingly liked the story threads that came out of the other characters. I perk up when Pete, Peggy, Sal and Roger are on screen. Jon Hamm's anxious, slightly constipated expression can be a bit wearing, though friends continue to insist on his handsomeness.
Series 3 has some good fun with the Brits, coming to spoil the July 4th celebrations. The British agency is called Putnam, Powell and Lowe. (David Puttnam, of course, a Brit - from an advertising background - who took over an American film studio, with not very good results). Although some of the Brit characters are fairly ghastly, one can't say they are more so than the Americans. Treatment is fair and often funny.
Race relations is a recurring theme in this series, My Kentucky Home a standout episode. (Wish I could dance like Vincent Kartheiser.) Pete's suggestion of integrated advertising also a great scene. Mad Men buzzes when this character is in motion. Don, of course, doesn't like to dance.
There is also plenty of screen time for the drama of Don, Betty and family - young and old. Less interesting to me, although the young actress playing the daughter does a great job.
The pleasure remains in the details - the supporting cast, the natty 60s clothes, the colours of the sets and, of course, the excellent script.
'I'm Peggy Olsen. And I want to smoke some marijuana.'
Know the feeling, girl!
If you missed the series on TV, and you were a fan of 1 and 2, I think most would enjoy 3 just as much. Though some of the initial novelty of the show has gone, of course. If you haven't got the dvd, the chance to own the series on blu-ray is also massively appealing. There haven't been many shows more suitable than this for the blu-ray treatment. Enjoy!
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Thank goodness the sun has decided to pay this country a call because I think, without it, I (along with many others, I'm sure!) would have gone into a steady decline with the final eposode of the third series of Man Men having aired on Wednesday evening.
TV viewing will be so much poorer for its finish.
In many ways, this third series has taken more time to get moving and I do agree with other reviewers that its a shame that most of the story lines have revolved around Don & Bettys' seemingly doomed marriage. However, I think to do this sub-plot justice, time had to be spent. And well spent it was indeed, delving deeper into Don's past helps us understand so much more clearly the man behind the persona.
Interestingly, whilst having more sympathy with Betty as the betrayed wife, at the start of season one, throughout this latest series, I have found her to be increasingly irritating. So much so in fact that when her determination to 'open the locked drawer' eventually pays off and she confronts Don with the evidence of his past, every bit of support I ever felt for her left instantly and my heart literally ached for Don's character.
A truly superb piece of acting by Jon Hamm in this scene.
Overall, viewed as a total series, I now believe season three to be more superior to both seasons one and two. However, I also hope that with season four (which the lucky US will start viewing shortly), Matthew Weiner does focus more on the other characters ~ they are all such interesting but so intrincially flawed in their own individual ways ... as are we all I guess!
Again, to reiterate other reviewers, this DVD cannot be viewed as a 'stand alone' as without having seen seasons one & two, it will make little sense.
However, viewed in its entirety, it is, in my personal opinion, without doubt quite the finest piece of television you could ever wish to see.
TV viewing will be so much poorer for its finish.
In many ways, this third series has taken more time to get moving and I do agree with other reviewers that its a shame that most of the story lines have revolved around Don & Bettys' seemingly doomed marriage. However, I think to do this sub-plot justice, time had to be spent. And well spent it was indeed, delving deeper into Don's past helps us understand so much more clearly the man behind the persona.
Interestingly, whilst having more sympathy with Betty as the betrayed wife, at the start of season one, throughout this latest series, I have found her to be increasingly irritating. So much so in fact that when her determination to 'open the locked drawer' eventually pays off and she confronts Don with the evidence of his past, every bit of support I ever felt for her left instantly and my heart literally ached for Don's character.
A truly superb piece of acting by Jon Hamm in this scene.
Overall, viewed as a total series, I now believe season three to be more superior to both seasons one and two. However, I also hope that with season four (which the lucky US will start viewing shortly), Matthew Weiner does focus more on the other characters ~ they are all such interesting but so intrincially flawed in their own individual ways ... as are we all I guess!
Again, to reiterate other reviewers, this DVD cannot be viewed as a 'stand alone' as without having seen seasons one & two, it will make little sense.
However, viewed in its entirety, it is, in my personal opinion, without doubt quite the finest piece of television you could ever wish to see.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Excellent TV series based on the advertising world in late 50s and early 60s. More than anything else it provides a glimpse of how corporate life was in that era.
Took me a while to get the hang of it but since then I have been hooked - Just finished watching Series 3.
Buy the boxset, sit back and re-live the old days!!!
Took me a while to get the hang of it but since then I have been hooked - Just finished watching Series 3.
Buy the boxset, sit back and re-live the old days!!!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
More of the same - compelling drama. Buy it.
The third series is more of the same. Stylish, good plots, sub-plots, character development. Of course it is a slow burner but that's why I like it. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Simon Kelly
madmen review
Madmen was fantastic if you like late 50s early 60s dramas this is one to watch, excellent acting class, so good i have now watched all of the Madmen, cant wait for the next one,... Read more
Published 5 months ago by J PALMER
Excellent series
Great series. If you've not seen any of these I'd recommend it, though to have any chance at understanding the convoluted backstory you'd have to start from episode one. Read more
Published 5 months ago by SJJones
Long on style, short on content
I thoroughly enjoyed the first and second seasons of Mad Men, yet while the third season retains the style and good looks of its predecessors, nothing really happens. Read more
Published 7 months ago by S.R Millar
Luxury soap
I enjoyed the first two series of "Mad Men", which I found moving and extremely well-acted. If anything let them down, it was the lack of subtlety in some of the writing: themes... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Frank T
The best show on TV!
Season 3 still keeps it real!
Don: It's your job. I give you money. You give me ideas.
Peggy: But you never thank me.
Don: That's what the money is for!
Don: It's your job. I give you money. You give me ideas.
Peggy: But you never thank me.
Don: That's what the money is for!
Published 13 months ago by Didi
Overrated
I watched series one and two because they were going cheap and against my better judgment I bought series three. I have reached the conclusion that MM is really overrated. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mary Windmill
Mad Men Season 3
This is the third Series of Mad Men...a wonderful TV programme and I look forward to the next Season coming out. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Sandy Piper
The Brits Are Coming
`Mad Men' is the kind of show that nothing much happens in, but it makes nothing much happening look cool. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Sam
Mad-tastic
What can you say about Mad Men except it's the best written and most stylish thing on TV? The photography is second to none and the Blu-Ray transfer is jaw droppingly good. Read more
Published 15 months ago by Mr. D. Parry
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