Mad Men: Season Three |  | Director: Matthew Weiner
Actors: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones, Christina Hendricks
Studio: Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Discs: 4
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Running Time: 611 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 6 x 1.3
MPN: LGED26271D
UPC: 031398114420
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ASIN: B002LITH76
Release Date: March 23, 2010
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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 03/23/2010 Run time: 611 minutes Rating: Nr
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Everything about Mad Men is stylish, even when it's all falling apart. And in season 3 of this Emmy-winning drama, many things fall apart--marriages, childhood, even the ad agency itself--but the unspoolings play out delicately and tragically, making for utterly compelling television. Don Draper (Jon Hamm) appears to dedicate himself to being a devoted family man, with the impending birth of his third child with Betty (January Jones), but the premiere episode, "Out of Town," has him right back to his philandering ways. While the Drapers do enjoy a romantic interlude during a business trip to Italy that makes you wish those darn kids could just work it out, the writing's on the wall that this marriage is sputtering out. Adding to the complication is Betty's discovery of Don's identity-switching past, her own dalliance with a politician, and their oldest child Sally's growing petulance as she observes her world crumbling around her (9-year-old Kiernan Shipka is a revelation). Meanwhile, the Brits infiltrate Sterling Cooper after a merger, leaving Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) and Ken (Aaron Staton) competing for the same job; Conrad Hilton (Chelcie Ross) brings in his business and his idiosyncrasies; the closeted Sal (Bryan Batt) nearly gets pushed out of the closet by some compromising situations; Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) asserts herself in the workplace and experiments with loosening her collar (this includes a surprising fling); and Joan (Christina Hendricks, arguably the sexiest woman on television) finally leaves the agency to be a housewife, only to find herself looking for work when her doctor husband comes up short in the promotion department. As usual, the comic relief lies in the reliable hands of the razor-sharp John Slattery as agency partner Roger Sterling, whose marriage to the much-younger former secretary of Don's drives tension between the once-chummy colleagues. At the end of the season, JFK's assassination provides a tragic backdrop for people preoccupied with their own troubles. The top-drawer writing and staging feels very much like a play, especially in the way it merges Don Draper's past with his present. Each episode also includes commentary by creator Matthew Weiner, various writers and directors, and pretty much all cast members (some are entertaining, some pretty superfluous). Also included are featurettes on the history of cigarette advertising and civil-rights documentaries on Medgar Evers and the "I Have a Dream" speech. The latter features, while substantial and well made, feel curiously out of place next to the materialistic and ethically challenged characters on Madison Avenue. Although not as consistent as the first two seasons, Mad Men's third season has enough power to keep it the best series of 2009. --Ellen A. Kim
Stills from Mad Men: Season 3 (Click for larger image)
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 Happy customer July 31, 2010
G. Flanders (McMinnville, Tn USA)
I got turned on to Mad Men this summer. Borrowed Season One from step-son, bought Season Two and bought step-son for his birthday Season Three. Now I am watching the new season. Love it.
 The middle drags but the season ends spectacularly. July 24, 2010
Pekinman (Illinois)
I don't have cable tv or satellite or any of that over-priced stuff so I have to wait, sometimes a long time, for the dvds of a series like Mad Men to become available for sale. I had a mixed reaction to seasons 1 & 2, still do, but with season 3, which I have just watched, I am beginning to become a Believer.
In the middle of this third season the going got rough and I got really even more bored with Don Draper's goat-like sex drive than I was in the previous seasons. But now I begin to see the stage being set for season four. (What follows is a spoiler so don't read on if you haven't seen the third season) I suppose that Don will marry that neurotic school teacher with the alcohol problem and the weird brother. Don reverting to blood type after his front was blown when Betsy finds his secret box of old photographs with his true identity that was hidden to her for their entire marriage.
This marital folderol all takes place during and after the assassination of JFK. That episode, I think it's around no. 7 in the season, is harrowing and great television. It brought back all the memories. I was about Sally Draper's age at the time.
It's wonderfully scripted and the side stories are kept moving along as well. The only drags were the love scenes between Don and that teacher, who I HOPE he doesn't marry, and I hope he gets back with Betsy if only the spoiled little bitch would Get Off It. She's annoying but she's not as annoying as Suzanne Farrell, the manipulative victim/teacher.
Anyway, it's an outstanding season, much better than seasons 1 & 2. So, I am fully onboard the Don Draper juggernaut and look forward to the release of Season Four. I am as addicted to this series now as I am to Rome. And they are the only two television shows I've become addicted to since the early years of Saturday Night Live.
Mad Men July 15, 2010
janne
Mad Men is probobly the best TV drama so far - it's a gas to see Jon Hamm in his role as Don Draper - he's brilliant!.
Great series - $10 on iTunes for the whole season! July 12, 2010
Aaron Peacock
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
Why buy this for $30 when you can get it right now for $9.99 on iTunes - just did it this weekend & I started watching minutes later.
Mad about this show July 4, 2010
M. McCluer (Madison, MS)
Mad Men is at once traditional and innovative, stylish and shocking, playful and austere, comical and brooding. It is a show that prides itself on combining seamless writing and amazingly effective character development, and it displays the same historical acumen and attention to detail that has made all of Matthew Weiner's projects into roaring successes. Mad Men is no exception, except that this particular show doesn't hang its hat on gratuitous sex or violence (though they occasionally appear anyway and fantastically enrich the plot), but rather exists as the purest of addictions, an indulgence for the soul.
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