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Jul 19, 2017 · Entertainment. Why 10-year-old 'Mad Men' is still the best show to come out of television's Golden Age. Carrie Wittmer. Jul 19, 2017, 11:15 AM PDT. A decade ago, AMC was just the...
Jan 31, 2020 · The character development in the show demonstrates why Mad Men is no ordinary period drama. Of course, the actors’ performances are exceptional. Most notable performances being that of John Slattery as Roger Sterling and Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olsen.
- Alan Sepinwall: Each Episode Is A Standalone Work of Art
- Molly Lambert: It Rewards The Viewer That Looks Closer
- Sonia Saraiya: It Has A Strong Understanding of The 1960s Atmosphere
- Todd Vanderwerff: It Wasn’T Revolutionary, But Its Execution Was top-notch.
Sepinwall’s Top 5 TV dramas, in no particular order 1. The Sopranos 2. The Wire 3. Deadwood 4. Mad Men 5. Breaking Bad “Certainly among American television dramas, it is one of the five best that there’s ever been,” Hitfix’s Alan Sepinwallsaid. Sepinwall has written about “Mad Men” in his book, “The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Sling...
Lambert’s Top 5 TV dramas, in no particular order 1. Mad Men 2. The Sopranos 3. Deadwood 4. The Wire 5. Treme “[“Mad Men”] sort of changed the whole way we expect prestige dramas to come out,” Molly Lambert of Grantland said. “Mad Men” premiered in the summer of 2007 on AMC, which had no clout at that point as a dramatic narrative network, she said...
Saraiya’s all-time Top 5 TV shows, in no particular order 1. X-Files 2. Arrested Development 3. Blackadder 4. Deadwood 5. Mad Men Sonia Saraiya of Salonsaid “Mad Men” makes history not feel like a “dusty textbook,” adding that, even from the pilot, the show introduced an atmosphere and characters that resonante with audiences despite being callback...
VanDerWerff’s all-time Top 5 TV shows, in no particular order 1. The Simpsons 2. The Mary Tyler Moore Show 3. The Sopranos 4. Deadwood 5. The Office (U.K.) “It’s not a terribly original show. It’s not a terribly cutting edge show,” Vox’s Todd VanDerWerff said. “What made it work was really, really excellent execution,” he said. “It was a show where...
Mar 5, 2012 · Mad Men has earned that level of blind trust because it’s serenely sure of what it’s doing. Despite the umpteen-zillion forest-for-the-trees “think pieces” grousing that Mad Men...
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Nov 9, 2009 · It’s not hard to understand why men might be drawn vicariously to the upside-down moral order of “Mad Men,” but what about the show’s legions of female viewers?
Jul 18, 2017 · There are a lot of reasons why: Its historicity, its emphasis on New York City, its exploration of gender, its reckoning with the underpinnings of advertising. I’ve...
May 20, 2015 · For the ultimate beauty of Mad Men is that Don Draper – lush, liar, womaniser, man of false identity – has always been so much more than the sum of his pathologies.
