Mad Men

**frankpembleton** · 07-21-2008 04:00 PM

Anyone psyched for season 2? I just finished season 1 on demand and loved it. Absolutlely loved the characters.

It's amazing how much things have changed from the late 50's and early 60's. That time in American history is so often rememberd as idyllic, but the cultural standards of the time really did seem take a heavy emotional toll on people, particularly women.

**Great8** · 07-21-2008 05:41 PM

Totally psyched! I've been waiting for someone to start a thread on this amazing show. I started watching it last year On Demand well into the season, and caught up in time to catch the last episodes as they aired. I recently bought the DVD set (packaged in a case that looks like a Zippo lighter, which is quite appropos!), and caught a bunch of nuances that I missed the first time around. I absolutely love it. You hit the nail on the head in your description of it, how we idealize that time as simpler and better than now, when in a lot of ways, it really wasn't. I think they've really captured the essence of the time -- the vocabulary, the clothing, the smoking! I feel the need to shower off the smoke smell after watching one episode!

I read that the producers of the show envision taking us through a decade of the characters' lives over the life of the series. I'm interested to see how the formality of the early 60's transitions into the turmoil of the latter part of that decade.

**SteveA** · 07-21-2008 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by frankpembleton

Anyone psyched for season 2? I just finished season 1 on demand and loved it. Absolutlely loved the characters.

It's amazing how much things have changed from the late 50's and early 60's. That time in American history is so often rememberd as idyllic, but the cultural standards of the time really did seem take a heavy emotional toll on people, particularly women.

I'm psyched. I watched the first 6 or 7 episodes last year then got busy and the rest of the season piled up on my DVR, then were a casualty last fall when I switched from Comcast to Verizon so I lost the Comcast DVR and everything I had on it.

Fortunately they reran the entire first season in sequence yesterday and I recorded it. As soon as tonight's game ends I'm going to fire up an episode or two and hopefully if I have the free time this week I will be ready for the Season 2 opener Sunday night. It's been so long I'm going to start at the beginning again. Looking forward to it as soon as the O's can finish this one off and get out of last place.

**Camden_yardbird** · 07-22-2008 09:52 AM

I just watched a few of the first season episodes this weekend. I have to say its a very good show, well acted, well written. The scene after they walk up the 27 flights of stairs at the end of the one episode is priceless. But seriously is anyone in that show actually sleeping with someone they are actually married too. I could understand one or two characters, but all of them?

**frankpembleton** · 08-10-2008 11:18 PM

I can't believe this show isn't generating more interest around here. It's the best show on TV. Season 2 is fantastic. Absolutely must see television. Don Draper is turning into one of my favorite characters in any show, ever.

It's really hard to believe HBO passed on this show. It seems like it would have been the exact type of thing they would have been all over.

I urge you fellow TV-heads to check this out if you have not already. There has been nothing interesting on since the end of The Wire. Finally, we have something...

**Nigel Tufnel** · 11-16-2011 11:40 AM

Mad Men may be filming in Baltimore today, at the Belvedere and somewhere in Fells Point.

http://www.baltimorefishbowl.com/sto...-today-or-not/

**Lester Freamon** · 11-16-2011 01:01 PM

Originally Posted by Nigel Tufnel

Mad Men is filming in Baltimore today, at the Belvedere and somewhere in Fells Point.

http://www.baltimorefishbowl.com/sto...e-hotel-today/

Very cool. I'm having trouble with the link though. I know season 3 opened in Baltimore with Don and Sal on a business trip. What I'm trying to remember is if Sal's character was from Baltimore or not. I suppose I'm hoping for some sort of return for Sal. Matthew Weiner is also from Baltimore, so maybe he just likes to find reasons to film in Baltimore whenever possible.

Thank you very much for the heads up!

**Icterus galbula** · 11-16-2011 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by Lester Freamon

Very cool. I'm having trouble with the link though. I know season 3 opened in Baltimore with Don and Sal on a business trip. What I'm trying to remember is if Sal's character was from Baltimore or not. I suppose I'm hoping for some sort of return for Sal. Matthew Weiner is also from Baltimore, so maybe he just likes to find reasons to film in Baltimore whenever possible.

Thank you very much for the heads up!

I saw Sal at Whole Foods last week. He and his partner own some sort of small business down here. I think he has been simply written out.

**Nigel Tufnel** · 11-16-2011 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by Lester Freamon

Very cool. I'm having trouble with the link though. I know season 3 opened in Baltimore with Don and Sal on a business trip. What I'm trying to remember is if Sal's character was from Baltimore or not. I suppose I'm hoping for some sort of return for Sal. Matthew Weiner is also from Baltimore, so maybe he just likes to find reasons to film in Baltimore whenever possible.

Thank you very much for the heads up!

Oops, looks like they updated their link - it also looks like this might have just been a rumor - it could be VEEP.

http://www.baltimorefishbowl.com/sto...-today-or-not/

**Lester Freamon** · 11-16-2011 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by Icterus galbula

I saw Sal at Whole Foods last week. He and his partner own some sort of small business down here. I think he has been simply written out.

Yeah, I know, just wishful thinking. At the end of S3 when they started up the new agency I remember thinking it might be an opening to bring Sal back, but honestly, I realize that it is much more realistic and honest story telling if we never hear from Sal again considering the time period and his circumstance.

Originally Posted by Nigel Tufnel

Oops, looks like they updated their link - it also looks like this might have just been a rumor - it could be VEEP.

http://www.baltimorefishbowl.com/sto...-today-or-not/

thank you very much for the updated link! we shall see...

**Frobby** · 11-16-2011 02:31 PM

I recently started watching this for the first time. I'm only 5-6 episodes into Season 1. It does pull you in right away but I was surprised how dark it is. I was expecting a bit more levity.

**NewMarketSean** · 11-16-2011 02:32 PM

Originally Posted by Frobby

I recently started watching this for the first time. I'm only 5-6 episodes into Season 1. It does pull you in right away but I was surprised how dark it is. I was expecting a bit more levity.

There is some humor, but it is a dark show. I compare it a lot to The Sopranos, without the killing.

**Nigel Tufnel** · 11-16-2011 02:40 PM

FYI - I saw that Best Buy will have Mad Men blu rays on sale on Black Friday, for $8.99 a season.

**ChaosLex** · 11-16-2011 02:41 PM

Schwing!

**NewMarketSean** · 11-16-2011 03:28 PM

Definitely one of the best things about this show!

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