{"id":12708,"date":"2011-08-08T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=12708"},"modified":"2011-08-05T08:50:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T14:50:30","slug":"mad-men-on-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/mad-men-on-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Men on DVD"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I’m normally wary of anything that has too much hype surrounding it, because generally I feel like it can’t possibly be as good as everyone says it is.\u00a0 I’m sure you’ve heard of Mad Men<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, as it is constantly hyped as one of the best shows on TV and has won multiple Emmys and Golden Globes.\u00a0 If you’ve never seen it, it’s set in the 1960s in New York City, and it’s all about\u00a0 the “golden age” of advertising on Madison Avenue and the glamorous life that the ad men led.\u00a0 Last week I finally checked out a couple of\u00a0episodes and I have to say, it really is fantastic.\u00a0 What I’m enjoying most about the show is the look and feel of it.\u00a0 Not only does it\u00a0seem very historically accurate, it’s such a beautiful<\/em> period piece.\u00a0 Everything from the clothes and the hair to the scenery is lovely to look at.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The acting in the show has also been wildly acclaimed, and it is also superb. \u00a0Jon Hamm\u00a0is fascinating to watch as\u00a0Sterling Cooper’s\u00a0morally-complex\u00a0creative director\u00a0Don Draper.\u00a0 You want to root for Don because he’s so charismatic and such an advertising genius, but he is certainly no angel.\u00a0 I’m also finding myself really interested in the storyline of Peggy, the naive new secretary to Don.\u00a0 We’re learning about how things work at Sterling Cooper right along with Peggy as she is thrown into a world filled with double standards between the men and the women.\u00a0 If you’re looking for a great drama series to watch and are especially interested in learning a little more about the past, I highly recommend checking out Mad Men.\u00a0 Currently we own season one<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, season two<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, season three<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, and season four<\/a>, <\/strong><\/em>so stop by any of our three locations to look for one today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m normally wary of anything that has too much hype surrounding it, because generally I feel like it can’t possibly be as good as everyone says it is.\u00a0 I’m sure you’ve heard of Mad Men, as it is constantly hyped as one of the best shows on TV and has[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[1694,1693,1040,523,237,535,241],"class_list":["post-12708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvds","category-staff-picks","tag-1960s","tag-60s","tag-advertising","tag-drama","tag-fashion","tag-style","tag-television"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3iY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12708"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12793,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12708\/revisions\/12793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}