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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION Matthew Weiner, a writer and executive producer for THE SOPRANOS, may have set this series in the picture-perfect 1960s, but his characters are just as scheming as the mobsters on his last show. Mad Men begins in 1960 on Manhattans Madison Avenue at the fictional ad agency of Sterling Cooper. Creative director Don Draper (Jon Hamm) rules the halls of his company and the hearts of every woman he meets, while his wife, Betty (January Jones) , struggles to be the perfect mate and mother back in Connecticut. Star Jon Hamm, Elizabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, John Slattery, Christina Hendricks, January Jones, Bryan Batt, Robert Morse Special Features: 4-Disc Set Special Packaging Full Frame Widescreen Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Subtitles - English, Spanish Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary Runtime: 616 minutes. AMAZON.COM Welcome to a world where Monday has a three drink minimum. Mad Men exists here and its a fabulous place to visit, back before Betty Friedans Feminine Mystique really made much of an impact and before the Surgeon General put warning labels on cigarettes. It was an America on the brink of social explosion and Mad Men, which tells the story of a group of Madison Avenue advertising executives in the early 1960s, captures that surface stillness perfectly, complete with the growing tension barely contained below the surface. The show succeeds on every level. HBO famously passed on Mad Men, created by former Sopranos executive producer and writer Matthew Weiner. AMC picked it up, and thank goodness they did. From the first episode, Season One becomes an essential, utterly addictive television- watching experience. Beautifully filmed and masterfully written, the show manages to present the period honestly but with little nostalgia, and as soon as you get over the constant smoking, drinking and treatment of women as little more than "girls" who get coffee and answer the phone, the complexity of these characters (especially the dashing Jon Hamm as Creative Director Don Draper) will leave you completely captivated. Season One features clandestine office romances, shadowy pasts, a ton of adultery, closeted homosexuality and a lot more drama that seems risqué even for 2008. But again, one of the most impressive things about Mad Men is that everything is executed with absolute class, style and elegance. And bonus for the DVD viewer: Like The Sopranos, Mad Men has a ton of little moments and hints leading up to character revelations and plot twists that make watching the episodes over and over continually rewarding. --Kira Canny Stills from Mad Men (click for larger image)

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