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MAD MEN, the stylish, multi-award winning and internationally acclaimed TV series from the writer and executive producer of The Sopranos, returns to DVD and Blu-ray for a third award-winning season on 26th April, courtesy of Lionsgate Home Entertainment.
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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54 of 59 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Still Buzzing,
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This review is from: Mad Men - Season 3 [Blu-ray] (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!
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just waiting for season 4 ....,
By dolcevita (Surrey, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mad Men - Season 3 [DVD] (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.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent series,
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This review is from: Mad Men - Season 3 [DVD] (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!!!
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