 Broadcast time in Canada, Season One of Mad Men: Sundays, at 10 p.m., on CTV |
One of the great delights that VanRamblings has experienced with our new Telus HDTV system occurs each Sunday evening at 10 p.m. when we tune into AMC / CTV’s ground-breaking Mad Men television series, an odds on favourite to pick up a whack of Emmy’s come September 21 on ABC, and most assuredly the best show of the otherwise woeful summer TV season.
Tracking the machinations within a swingin’ 60s ad agency, “when guys wore narrow-lapelled suits and guzzled bourbon”, Mad Men emerges as outstanding period television drama (and far superior to its period drama competition, the pandering 70s CBS summer drama, Swingtown).
Mad Men excels because of its universally superior and eminently identifiable performances, an unusually sophisticated storytelling style rarely found on broadcast television, a wonderful evocation of time and place, as well as its arresting visual style (even more appealing in HD). As Tim Goodman writes in the San Francisco Chronicle, Mad Men emerges as “an adult drama of introspection.” One could hardly wish for more this summer TV season.
