Mad Men

[anonymous-user]

Joined Amazon Prime last month and had watched Series 1 and the first 6 episodes of Series 2.

Went to watch it yesterday and Amazon have taken it off Prime so it's now chargeable per episode.... WTF!!!!!

That's the end for me

[rob0r]

NowTV has all the series, well it did a few months back at least.

[Halb]

I wouldn't buy the hardcopies, but it's well worth putting on a HD somewhere.


Still not bought my hardcopy version of the Sopranos!!

[gregs656]

Thread revival...

I watched mad men years a go and remember picking it up and putting it down. I liked it but I didn’t love it.

I put episode 1 on recently as it’s on Amazon Prime and have roared through to season 4 episode 6.

I still don’t love it, although I do enjoy it. I think it tries a bit too hard a lot of the time.

One thing I’m really noticing now, which I didn’t before, is just how obvious it is that it is filmed on a set and rarely (ever???) on location. I know the first episode was shot in NYC and the rest in LA, I don’t know if they filmed in NYC for specific episodes.

Compare that to The Sopranos which I am also rewatching, and while some things are on a set they also filmed a lot on location and it just feels more organic to me.

Worth a go anyway if you haven’t seen it.

Let’s hope Halb makes a return also! I understand he is on a break with the pandemic etc.

[marcosgt]

I always felt Mad Men was style over substance.

It looked great and you did grow to like some of the characters, flaws and all, but I always felt the story arc was very much a second thought to the look and feel of the show.

I enjoyed it, but I don't feel any urge to go back to it - It wasn't, for me, groundbreaking TV.

M