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| Mad Men - Season One | 
 enlarge | Actors: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, Christina Hendricks
Studio: Lionsgate
Category: DVD
List Price: $49.98
Buy New: $26.56
You Save: $23.42 (47%)
New (50) Used (13) Collectible (4) from $24.48
Avg. Customer Rating:  139 reviews
Sales Rank: 57
Format: Widescreen, Box Set, Color, Dolby
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 45
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.9
MPN: LGED22938D
UPC: 031398229384
EAN: 0031398229384
ASIN: B000YABIQ6
Theatrical Release Date: July 19, 2007
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 The show's brilliant, the packaging? Not so much. July 5, 2008
25 out of 36 found this review helpful
The show itself is fabulous. And I'm pretty sure most of the people hitting this page would agree. Otherwise, why else would you be here? You've seen the show, you love it, and you just want to know whether or not to buy the DVD.
Yes, you totally should. Because the show's brilliant, and therefore you should support it.
The packaging is horrendous. It looks awesome. Zippo lighter shooting out flames. The flames are the problem though. You have to be really careful taking the discs out (set up stadium style) as you're going to get your fingerprints all over them. And you have to be super careful closing the box, as the way it's set up, you end up scratching the discs.
 Juxtaposition of the "Real Working World" then and now! November 16, 2007
15 out of 21 found this review helpful
i couldnt have said it better than the previous reviewer. This show is absolutely addicting and completely in the realm of almost entertainment therapy, since any adult can relate to the situations of this show. The social strata and class labels of "secretaries", "bosses" and "wives" and their assigned roles and duties is sheer brilliant drama and the frustrations of those in the classes is effectively conveyed to us. You can see the 60's ready to explode with the liberation of all these classes and "free" the women from the men, the men from their almost god-like bosses (having to take off their shoes to enter his office like entering a temple) and the general workplace poplulation from onsite smoking and drinking and carousing. it makes you wonder how would life today be if things were still like that, but i get the feeling that the creator's purpose is not so much to contrast, but to juxtaposition, to make you really think... did it really change?... is it really any different now?......
When this comes on DVD every adult in America will enjoy this show!
MAD MEN.... "Best Show Ever" November 29, 2007
12 out of 16 found this review helpful
MAD MEN is awesome and one of the few series TV shows that I think I would watch at least several times on DVD (my wife and I still have all of the ER releases sitting unopened.... outside of a few special occasion nights when you get a bunch of friends together to watch a season of a series as a party event, who has time to watch all of these things?). Anyway, back to the point... MAD MEN would certainly be one series I WOULD WATCH again on DVD and I was so hoping they were going to release it for this Holiday season... it would have been perfect viewing for those cold winter nights between Christmas and spring. I would guess the release of the DVD of the first season will be just ahead of the second season debut on TV next summer (if the writers strike has not gotten in the way of filming!). Probably a marketing decision but I think it would have been better to release season one of this gem of a series for this Holiday so that there would have been opportunities over the "off time" to introduce it to friends and family who have not had a opportunity, as the rest of us have had, to return to 1960 New York City and peek into the lives of these extraordinary characters. To paraphrase the comic book guy on THE SIMPSONS... "Best Show Ever"
No good DVD extras July 2, 2008
10 out of 16 found this review helpful
I was sort of hoping, since they made us wait nearly a year to release the DVD, that there would be some cool extras. The only thing on there of note is the "making of Mad Men" - c'mon. I love this show - couldn't you be a bit more creative - maybe interviews with the actors, stock footage of 1960s era original advertising, easter eggs, blooper reel, screen tests - all the other goodies you expect to get in addition to the episodes.
This shouldn't be construed as a knock at the show itself - which is picture perfect - but if you are going to sit on a DVD release for 10 months at least make it worth the wait. I expect more from Season 2 DVD box Lionsgate / Weiner.
Must...have...Mad...Men...DVDs...now... November 16, 2007
9 out of 11 found this review helpful
Attention goons at AMC! Pleeeeeeeeeeease don't wait forever and a day to release the season 1 DVD set for your marvelous evocation of the New Frontier era, you know, the transition period between the relative comformity of the Eisenhower era, and full-blown upheaval of the mid to late 1960s and its various social revolutions. MAD MEN has been far and away the best and deepest program that television has had to offer in 2007. God bless you for producing it!
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