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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 07/07/2009 Run time: 611 minutes Rating: Nr
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By CK1 (Urbana, Illinois United States)
I love this show, it deserves all the praise it gets. However, the blu-ray is painfully slow and forces you to skip over ads for bleach and season 3 everytime you load the disc. I don't have the newest blu-ray player but this disc takes, by far, the longest to load of any blu-ray I have every played in two years. Also, the menus are slow and unresponsive, making them difficult to navigate.
Surely such a great show deserves better.
By E. Mathews (Washington, DC United States)
The show is great. I can't say anything that hasn't already been noted about how excellent it is.
I do want to weigh in on the blu-ray, however, and second some of the problems other reviewers have encountered. The discs are quite difficult to navigate and the quality of the menus is poor. It takes ages for the episodes to load, the bookmark function is cumbersome, and the time it takes to even get to the main menu is ridiculous. It was frustrating to wait five+ minutes just to get to the point of choosing an episode. I also had problems with the main menu on each disc loading correctly - it skipped and stalled, and then the menu was jumbled. This is on a new Samsung blu-ray player - it's fully updated and I haven't had a problem on any other disc I've tried, even from Netflix.
Summary: great show, the blu-ray isn't worth it.
By Adventure Fan
BLU-RAY vs HDTV vs DVD vs TV
The picture quality on the blu-ray is the best version of the show. But it's not life-altering. It's very film-grainy. If that's the intent, that's fine, it looks cheap, maybe "artistic," and its not distracting, but the texture is obvious in almost every shot. I watch on a 50" plasma, and it's nice, but the blu-ray isn't a huge leap over the dvd, not to me. And the third disc had two episodes where the disc froze. This is the first blu-ray that has ever froze on me. Maybe it's a fluke. But it happened.
THE STORYTELLING
I remember the first three episodes of season 1 of Mad Men. It was glorious. The main character, Don, was a genuine force. A fantastic protagonist. I loved him, unconditionally, untill the end of the season when the writers started giving him flashbacks. Trying to use shortcuts to explain him, to turn him from a larger-than-life force, into an average screwed-up guy. Now, I still like Don, and I still like the show, and maybe I stand alone here, but they did the flashback thing again at the end of season 2. I don't regret spending my free time watching this show, but it's starting to get that episodic-tv-bad-soap-opera-effect. The plot twists are starting to add up, bleeding the character out. Next year, when season 3 hits blu-ray, I'll netflix it, to give it another chance... But I find myself becoming a bit indifferent to this show. I still reccomend people try it, because it's good, and maybe I'm too picky. Lot's of people love this show, and can embrace the particular qualities that have turned me cool. This may sound like a "downer" review, but we're talking about a show with a downer tone and a downer plot, so it's kind of symmetric.
By Stephen Cate
I still don't know exactly how to explain Mad Men to people. I can't believe that so many people still do not know about this show. After following the Sopranos religiously I knew I need to find something to fill the void..... Well this might not quite do it but the combination of Mad Men, Lost, Dexter, and True Blood gives me my fix.
Mad Men is a must see and this is a great way to get into the series while its still young. Both the first and second seasons look great on blu-ray disc. Do yourself if you haven't started watching this series and pick up both today!
By Scorpio69 (Hawaii, America's Paradise)
...as we move forward into the 60s with this fantastic show. Season One set us up with a broad sketch of the characters and an ever-so-slightly stylized and caricatured -- but always impeccably authentic feeling -- look at the late 50's/early 60s attitudes and mores of this particular slice of American society. Season Two further peels away the onion as we delve deeper into the characters and watch as they are starting to be confronted with the sweeping social changes that are sure to rock their worlds in a big way.
This is a fantastic, unique series that is beautifully written and acted, and the production design is just amazing. Three thumbs up!
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