• Network: AMC
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 19, 2007
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6
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Metascore

Universal acclaim - based on 20 Critics What's this?

User Score

Universal acclaim- based on 146 Ratings

  • Summary: Sterling Cooper is in transition after its merger with a British company and secrets continue to play a part in people's seemingly happy lives.
  • Genre(s): Drama, Documentary
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 20
  2. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. 100
    Was it worth the wait? Are you kidding me? Does London Fog make raincoats?
  2. All the elements Mad Men does well - the humor, the note-perfect clothing and sets, the creeping cultural change - are still there to be savored.
  3. There are no heroes or villains here, only people working out or being carried toward their individual destinies. And in who we root for and in what we root for them to choose, we also define ourselves.
  4. 40
    Try as I might, Mad Men fails to resonate, settle in, tell me something. It can no longer get out of its own way so as to allow its multiple story lines to experience actual forward momentum. (Only the calendar does that.)

See all 20 Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 25
  2. Negative: 3 out of 25
  1. QuinnB.
    10
    Easily the most addictive TV show I have ever watched. Mad Men says a lot by saying very little.
  2. Continuing it's streak of of pure brilliance, Mad Men continues to deliver like a **** Around the sane playing field as the second in terms of its gracefulness, but also consistently awesome. What needs to be said about the complexities has already been said a million times over. Expand
  3. JayT
    7
    It's a good, but not great, show. Smugly tries too hard to be profound. Even its aren't-they-so-backward-in-1960 moments can misfire (A restaurant scene in which someone orders, and we're asked to fear with our 21st century hindsight, a humble egg). I see why it's popular, though. It plays to urban American multi-culti self satisfaction. Expand
  4. BrianM
    2
    I just don't get the appeal of this glacier paced series. Sometmes, when nothing is happening on screen, it doesn't mean that it�39;s deep and thought provoking. It just means that there's nothing happening. Expand

See all 25 User Reviews

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