Book description
Mad Men Carousel is an episode-by-episode guide to all seven seasons of AMC's Mad Men. This book collects TV and movie critic Matt Zoller Seitz's celebrated Mad Men recaps-as featured on New York magazine's Vulture blog-for the first time, including never-before-published essays on the show's first three seasons. Seitz's writingā¦
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We always felt that Mad Men was one of the true gems of the turn of the millennium. Set during the tumultuous Sixties, it adeptly mirrored the various social, political, and cultural changes that marked that decade. On the surface structured like many TV series ācompanionā books (detailing the plot and major credits for each individual episode), Seitzās book goes deeper to explain the underlying messages of each episode.
Even when we recall an episodeās story, reading Seitzās book is like taking a fascinating course on all things Mad Men. About half of the entries are based on episodeā¦
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