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TV Review > Mad Men
My first experience with the Mad Men series has not been good. I did watch about six or seven shows and didn’t find anything attractive to the series. To tell you the truth, I did find it truly boring. I found the relation that Don Draper had with her depressed wife Betty to be of no interest for me to spend 45 minutes each episode.
The world around me were not stopping talking about it, claiming it was one of the best series around. I didn’t know what they were finding in this slow and boring show. Then a month ago, remembering what my friend Barclay told me about the series: “You need to invest yourself in it”, I decided to give it a second chance without promising I would even go further than the seventh episode.
In lest than a month I did finish 3 seasons! I have found the series to be good, not exceptional, but good and intriguing. Then I begun watching the fourth season. This is when I understood what investing yourself into it really means. The fourth season is certainly one of the best ever written. It went from being good, to very good, to exceptional in less than seven episodes. The Mad Men episode 407 “The Suitcase” is certainly the best throughout the all series. It is outstanding.
In a single line I would describe the series Mad Men as this: You need to invest yourself in it, and when you do, you get rewarded very generously.
Here’s a video of Don Draper saying “What?” in all of its glorious inflections from the first four seasons. I think this is the best signature the show can get. Now each time you will hear Don saying it after watching this little piece of anthology, it would be difficult not to smile.
My rating: 4.5/5 (most of it because of the extraordinary season 4)
