...just no. Totally engrossing for however long 4 series lasts.

But it's not supposed to be funny and a lot of the time it's supposed to be bleak. It's a costume drama set in a time that a lot of people can remember. I can't wait until season 5 .... but I'm going to have to!.

I'm on a hiatus at the moment, but I'm two series in and still waiting for this incredible television that everyone's going on about. It strikes me as magnificently mediocre.

No desire whatsoever to watch Season 2. Felt like it said all it needed to say in the first four or five episodes.

See also Breaking Bad. I managed three episodes before deciding it wasn't for me.

I adore Mad Men.

Particularly Roger Sterling's rapier wit.

An excellent programme with a great cast of characters.

Don Draper; who one minute you have enormous sympathy for and then he blows it by doing something or saying something that makes you think "you tosser"

Pete Campbell; a loathsome weasel who always expects everything to be handed to him on a plate, and gets peturbed when it doesn't happen that way.

Roger Sterling; Mrs S. actually asked "what does he do?", well, he drinks, smokes and lusts after Joan...and is as old school as they come.

Joan; lovely, lovely Joan.

Peggy Olsen; the heart of the programme, who has to deal with these Mad Men on a daily basis, and still maintain her dignity.

I love Mad Men and I can't wait until Season 5.

I've just watched one series so far but I think it's great - it's far more than it's setting. If you wanted, couldn't you reduce pretty much any show to it's setting in this way?

the beginning, some tv programmes strike a chord and others don't but for me the style and dressiness is a small part of it for me; it's the development of the characters, the wit and the fact that almost every episode has a car crash element to it. It has characters I care about and dislike and I am still coming to terms with what Don did at the end of season 4.

A PC version wouldn't ring true. It's historical. It's set in the past when things were different. What doesn't your friend get about that?

Quality drama, but clearly not for everyone.

... then it doesn't get watched.

Mad Men is the best TV ever made in my opinion. I'm not one to get excited about a show but I really do love this one.

I love that its not obvious. After years of really bad stuff like 'Lost' being made I find it a real breath of fresh air that a tv programme exists that isn’t formulaic & can be exciting even though it plods along at a slow pace.
I think that the pace of it is why some people love it & some don't. This is just my humble opinion of course but I have always struggled with a show that has to spoon feed suspense & shock! Shock in this programme can be Peggy calling Don 'Don' & not 'Mr Draper'!
My favourite thing about it is that things happen off screen that you don't see, it make it all the more subtle & realistic for me.

In fact, i'm going to start watching it again from the beginning, it might help with the wait for series 5!

EDIT - me & my girlfriend enjoyed it that much we named our cats Betty & Peggy

Mad men remains. I sort of get the appeal it's for people who were children at the time the series is set reliving what they perceive as their parents lives(or possible lives) hence the clunky exposition. Is there a cultural event that can't be shoehorned rather clumsily into each show?

The main character played by someone called "Hamm" natch is massively unappealing and uninvolving and doesn't seem to have evolved any during the whole run.How many times a show does he sit on the edge of a bed and rub his temples wow he's like deep and troubled.
It doesn't even have the benefit that Soprano or Wire had of the jeopardy of main characters getting whacked at any moment. Why do you care why these people succeed, they are not even that interesting let alone likeable?

Even the drama is clunky in a recent episode a character covered up his past by getting the company to drop a major government contract and this was passed over in matter of seconds. Govt contracts in advertising are a gold mine companies fight for them tooth and claw not walk away from them at minutes notice.

Also I love the stereotypical English characters, sure British ad agencies had/have their share of Toffs but also plenty of wheeler dealers and smart suited barrow boys. So being shown as a repressed public school again is a little tiresome and obvious.

As for the style and setting well that's a matter of taste but it's obvious that they can't afford too many external scenes and have tried to make it a virtue meaning that sometimes it seems abit forced all this shagging in offices etc. I know the interior shots are meant to reflect the intense nature of office life etc but often you just think they just couldn't afford to shoot this scene in a park.

Oh as for the sex appeal you would think nobody had seen a pair of tits before. Also the damp palm types presumably aren't the same people who are very snippy of Jack Vetriano's work which is basically a series of Mad men storyboards. http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&rlz=1T4DKUK_en-GBGB302GB302&q=jack+...

people at work in an office in the fifties.

Really did not float my boat at all.

Coming soon we have Pan Am (60's flight attendants) and Playgirls (Hugh's first Playboy club.)

Shame it's gone over to s**

I'm not going to rant about what's wrong with it again here. I can't be bothered. But this says most of how I feel, in a far more articulate manner:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/feb/24/mad-men-account/?pa...

The clothes, the guys, the broads - the typography, omfg the typography.
Never watched an episode though.
Haven't felt the need to.