Mad Men - Season 1

Pros: cast, look (I think the writing is overrated!)
Cons: the era's sexism, racism, anti-Semitism, and homophobia are painful to have recalled

Preface The 1950s are widely celebrated as being the "golden age" of television. There were some live dramas that have lived on mostly in memory (though some have become available on DVD) along with Milton Berle (a taste I never ...

Pros: Outstanding acting, sets and costumes, attention to historical detail and social attitudes of the times.
Cons: It's only on one night per week.

Who says summer is a dull time for television? Thanks to American Movie Classics and its original series "Mad Men," it's becoming my favorite time of the year for viewing. With the opening season set in the spring of 1960 in the Madison Avenue ...

Pros: The concept is good.  Robert Morse's performance
Cons: Inferior in every way.  No depth, nothing inventive.

This is one of those series where friends were talking about it so we tuned in and found it flat, badly written, poorly acted and directed, so unimpressed and critical that we rented several seasons of shows from Netflix to see how we could disagree so ...