Guide Note

Mad Men is a dramatic television series set in the 1960s at the fictional Sterling Cooper Advertising Agency on New York City's Madison Avenue. The show depicts the changing social mores of the early 1960s and has been praised for its high production values and attention to period detail.

The show was created by Sopranos writer Matthew Weiner.

Fast Facts

Network: AMC
Run: June 19, 2007 - Present
Episodes: Thursdays at 10PM
Creator: Matthew Weiner
Won a Golden Globe Award in 2008 for best drama series
Canadian Network: CTV

Themes

The show highlights such social issues as cigarette smoking, drinking, sexism, and racial bias as examples of how society, not so long ago, was radically different from the present. The series also observes advertising as a corporate outlet for creativity for mainstream, middle-class, young, white men.

Cast

Jon Hamm as Don Draper
Elisabeth Moss as Peggy Olsen
Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell
January Jones as Betty Draper
Christina Hendricks as Joan Holloway

Categories

Entertainment | Television | Dramas

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Every Mad Men episode closes with a song appropriate to the period and the episode's theme. The song used over the opening credits, however, is of a more recent vintage - "A Beautiful Mine" by RJD2.

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Mad Men News and Articles

Mad Men has received high praise from the critical community. Nancy Franklin at The New Yorker wrote, "Have any states yet legalized marriage between human beings and TV shows? If so, I’m going to throw a few things in a bag and run off with Mad Men..."

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Time: It's an Ad. But Is It Art?(June 27, 2007)
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