Mad Men

...is a multi-layered 1960s period drama. Since its inception Mad Men has garnered a slate of awards including last year's Emmy and two consecutive Golden Globes for Best Television Drama Series. Weiner was an executive producer and writer...

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...a ratings nosedive, HBO's "The Sopranos" was named best drama series. Likewise, in 2008, AMC's "Mad Men" won the best-drama derby, and won the trophy again in 2008. Once before, way back in 2004, which yes, is the year before Emmy...

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...up to the hype. I love the show and we never miss an episode in my household, but with shows like Six Feet Under and The Sopranos so often being left at the Emmy altar, I wondered if Mad Men really deserved all the accolades. After season...

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...enjoy the music used in each episode. "I'm not gonna lie, one of my favorite parts of The Sopranos was when the show ended," Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner told me during our recent conversation. "And you're just like, 'This is what's...

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Where The Sopranos echoed the mob movies of the 1970s and '80s, Mad Men literally evoked its era, the Camelot of the 1960s - at least, up until this season's shockingly evocative depiction of the impact of the 1963 Kennedy assassination.

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...greatness." That is, when "Mad Men" or "The Wire" or "Breaking Bad" or "The Sopranos" sets the standard at what are almost impossible creative heights, everything else that comes along seems substandard and thus not very good. The reality...

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...Baer / AMC) by Linda Holmes Mad Men, like The Sopranos and The Wire before it, inspires an admirable amount of careful and thoughtful criticism that's frequently and unfortunately denied to television. Take, for instance, this piece in...

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...entirely so. Quality cable dramas such as Nurse Jackie, The Wire, The Shield, Deadwood, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, and Mad Men have immeasurably enriched our petty lives, though there's really no excuse for Californication. But it is also...

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So what about it--is Betty right? * I referenced "Whitecaps" above, but it shows the difference between Mad Men and The Sopranos that Betty and Don's showdown is not a blow-up but an interrogation. When Don goes into the kitchen for "a...

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