$ Mad Men Season One Blu ray

FABULOUS, FABULOUS! Better than Sopranos, which is better than anything else on TV.

Obviously I wholeheartedly agree with most previous reviews. I just want to add my two cents to highlight some areas that I think reviewers didn't quite do justice to:

1. Don's Wife: Betty Draper is often stereotyped by reviewers as being a gorgeous "childlike" Stepford wife type. I disagree. There is much more to her than meets the superficial eye. She is a woman with beautifully portrayed ambivalence--she revels in, and dazzles us, in her in her breezy handling of her assigned role as gorgeous, loving, devoted wife and mother, and housewife. But, inside, there is depression, loneliness, alienation, and even anger and a sense of entrapment. Indeed, her lines reveal this at almost every turn. On the one hand, she is clearly an opinion leader among her neighborhood girlfriends, (e.g. in her persuading her friends to show some tolerance and sympathy for the divorcee who just joined the neighborhood), and she is a complete equal in her intelligent repartees with Don. On the other hand, she is a nervous hostess, full of anxiety to put on the perfect birthday party for her little girl, and she is afflicted with some scary psychosomatic numbness and shaking in her hands, which lead her to the 1960s shrink's couch. Her relationship with Don is a beautifully scripted and choreographed blend of real love, with a partnership of openness and honesty with regard to all of their SHARED life, battling with deception, and clandestine played out escape fantasies in each of their private lives.

2. As many reviewers comment, Mad Men is a real gem of a presentation of an anti-PC, "in your face" 1960s world. BUT, it doesn't simply flaunt and revel in the "capitalist", "materialistic", "vice-ridden" culture.

Far from glorifying this lifestyle, it displays, indeed very much wants to capture the viewer's attention to, all the darkness, the traps, the alienation, the Darwinian competition, and the sickness, that this world creates! Indeed, this very unapologetic flamboyant, and gorgeous, movie quality TV show, treats the viewer with a rare degree of respect--the viewer sees it as it really was, and judges without interference or propaganda, for him or her self. What a rare treat!
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• ISBN13: 0031398240761
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.