Mad Men: Season 3
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Returning for its third season, the two-time Golden Globe®-winning series for Best TV Drama bursts with one scandalous surprise after another. Jon Hamm and the rest of the award-winning ensemble continue to captivate us as they contend with a world on the brink. 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. “Mad Men”: Where the Truth Lies.Amazon.com
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March 10th, 2010 at 5:43 am
At the end of season two Don Draper was going through a soul-searching crisis. Suddenly, I found him more empathetic and interesting, so I was really looking forward to season three. I was disappointed. Don became the same unlikeable character he was in season one and most of season two.
I just don’t understand how a series with so many unlikeable characters – all the men – became so popular.
Not once did any of the men, or even Peggy, express their love for advertising, for helping people buy the right product; so I’m left to conclude that the only thing that drives these selfish people is money and sex.
Also, I found it hard to believe that Peggy, after the way she was treated by Don, made the decision she did at the end of the season.
Finally, I was disappointed the Connolly’s adoption story line was dropped. To me, it seemed real and meaningful, something I could identify with.
Still, there are things about this series I like, the acting, Betty Draper, much of the diologue, and the “look” of the Sixties.
In the end, I want characters I can root for.
Rating: 2 / 5
March 10th, 2010 at 6:02 am
I love the show. I missed season 1 and started watching half of season 2. So I had to buy the season 1 & 2 on DVD to see all the shows. Seeing season 3 on TV, I can say it’s not as good as season 1 & 2. I’m not going to pre-order season 3 on DVD, I’ll wait a few months for it to go on sale. But, I will add season 3 to my MadMen collection.
Rating: 3 / 5
March 10th, 2010 at 7:46 am
I will wait to purchase this when it is released to get a lower price, but it is a Do-Not-Miss item! I have been hooked on Mad Men since watching the first episode the day it premiered. Love it! Everyone should see it from the beginning. If you have not yet done it, purchase season one and two and watch them, then get this the minute it is available.
I dissagree with Mr. Cyber. Season 3 was just as good as 1 & 2. It started a bit slow but got much better and the finale was the best finale of all three seasons so far. Can’t wait to see what happens next year!
Rating: 5 / 5
March 10th, 2010 at 9:49 am
My husband & I love this series. We were a little late in jumping on the bandwagon. We didn’t watch the first season until the 2nd season was almost over. We played a lot of catch up & we’re glad we did. It is so true to its time and profession (my husband is in advertising).
Rating: 5 / 5
March 10th, 2010 at 12:21 pm
I watched the first two episodes of Mad Men season 3 last night with great interest. Shown on the BBC it had no commercial breaks and lasted an hour and a half. I have tried to think of what’s different about this current run and I think it’s become more soap opera and less insight into the world of Madison Avenue in the 50s and 60s. Less flair. It was always the creative haven, the man’s world of invention and contention that excited me.
I have always enjoyed the way the camera moves in the first two seasons. Now the editing seems far more regular soap. The struggles of Peggy and Joan are fascinating. Each in their own domain. But it is the introduction of the British take-over that is a fundamental shift in Mad Men perspectives.
Was America overmanned? Is America overmanned? So far this is the only analogy that can justify the Brit angle. The cultural British invasion of the 1960s, so far at least, is not readily apparent in the storyline.
Competing forces. Change in the air. Social conviviality (the bar room scene where Peggy picks up her date, an excellent example). These are the strengths of Mad Men. To show and not to tell of liberalism, expansion and responsibility.
Mad Men is up there with the best television ever produced anywhere. The first two seasons were some of the best cinema as well. I hope you don’t kill the individuals in the following eleven episodes. That would be failure.
Looking forward to Wednesday nights in New York city.
‘The Fog’ passed so quickly. The complexities of child bearing and child rearing shown with dreamscapes and surreal touches which seem to embrace the whole experience in just forty five minutes. Brilliant. Don resists teacher’s temptation, Peggy steals her ambition, Pete’s ignorance spills over his frustration. The Prison officer glides past Don in the hospital ward where they seemed to have bonded so well. Reality is a hard place.
I take back my comment about soap opera inclinations, the flair and imagination in that one episode was worthy of a poem. A poem I had not read.
Rating: 5 / 5