Mad Men

• Reviewed by Michael Bowen
  ★★★★★ 
• Television Series
• 2007
• About a 8 minute read

Ah, the early 1960’s were a simpler time. A time where a room without wafting cigarette smoke was not worth going into, where scotch was considered a hearty breakfast and where woman were openly insulted in board meetings. Although this probably doesn’t sound like the ideal location for most people reading this, Mad Men (2007) manages to draw its viewers into a time that defies the conventions of our day and age in the most intriguing possible ways. The series pilot, ‘Smoke Gets In Your Eyes’, drops the viewer into the world of the self proclaimed ‘Mad Men’ of the...