"Finally"

Viva McMann & Tate!

Yea! Jon Hamm. Make StL proud. It's a long time since "The Years". I knew you had it then.

Sam G

Aahhh...finally a show that doesn't involve forensics or emergengy rooms. This might just be our next Sopranos.

Let me first say for statistical purposes that I am a 37 year old white hetrosexual male with no religious affiliation.

I watched the Mad Men premiere this evening. I have one question. What is this show's demographic? Male WASPs between the ages of 30 and 60? This show is racist, sexist, and anti-semitic. It is degrading to women and it promotes smoking, drinking, adultery, and promiscuity. Now I believe that AMC is welcome to produce and broadcast and show they want, but I am surprised that the network's research team thought a show of this nature would be popular. I enjoy watching sexy dramas with interesting dialog, but this show is even too "white" for my taste.

The depiction of 60s roll models has been deliberately distorted to exploit the political correctness of this era.

The fact was adults were expected to be far more polite, self controlled and civil when I was a kid (60s) than they are today... and the family was not defined by how much you drank smoked or cheated...this was the value system of a sub culture that in all likelihood darkened the halls of an over paid huckster class.

Every where else the 60s were pretty tame and polite...this series gives a disproportionate focus on human vice and attempts to make us believe the world was self gratifying, hedonist, bigoted, misogynist until politically correct enlightenment freed us from all this...believe me the status quo culture in the 60s was far more polite, moral and self regulating that the mandarins of PC puritanism would have us believe with this type of revisionist pap.

I see nothing entertaining here but i do see human vice being exploited for profit as it is sold to a generation who have no link with the 60s except revisionist media like this.

Hey its 2111hrs on the west coast! Where the hell is this program, MAD MEN?? I'm watching the Godfather instead?? All the hype and ads, indicating tonight July 19th is the premiere! Where is the program. I subscribe to DISH Satellite.

I was born in 1950 and by 1960 I was dying to be in advertising. Where I eventually ended up but thank god got out of by the 80s. You guys got a lot of it right but your art direction is full of mistakes -- those foam ceilings on a grid, for example. But a lot of it looks good. Pointy bras, etc. What you really messed up was the diction. Your actors sound like 80s Valley girls. Get a 70 year old dialog coach. Think Pink. To get it right, please review any movie with Tony Randall, and any album by Julie London. And your writing is full of anachronisms. Your use of the word "technologuy" for example. And all that introspection. I wrote several novels set in the 20s and asked old people to vet the dialogue. They eliminated phrases like "whatever". You need to do the same thing for the 60s, and scrub stuff that sounds klunky in a 1960 context. Or get someone like me who remembers. But good luck. I loved that era and remember it well.

All over the newspaper and on your channel were reviews and schedules, hype, saying that you would air Mad Men at 10 and 11 P.M. on Thurs. But all I could find on my San Francisco affiliate were 4 hours of Godfather. And I see no place on your website saying "contact us." So what's going on here?

as a female Art Director in Advertising, I'm glad to see how things have evolved from the 60s, I also find it just as compelling how men have stayed the same

Show aired in LA right on schedule, repeated, and then at midnight, The Godfather. Sounds like your loacl affiliate is showing the east coast feed on the west coast

Just checked the AMC schedule and it seems there is a glitch in the system where the EST, which seems to be the only one affected, is showing the PST schedule. Show is coming up twice on friday, but you'll need to subtract three hours, meaning at the time of this writing, its going to show again on the east coast at 7am, not the listed 4am.

As a television drama, I loved it and will definitely be tuning in for more. But I will agree and disagree with Brian above. I think this show is going to cause some major buzz. I am going to watch it though, and try not to question this and that about how the show is racist, sexist, and so on. I am just tired of the selection of television these days and this show is something different.

Nice acting, interesting plot line but time line stunk... Set too much in first night... Peggy even in wild & wonderful 60's didn't start a job and by noon confieded in her supervisor she wanted the pill, gone to the doctor, got prescribed and then sleep with the associate that same night. First, the doctor would have told you, not effective for a month and secondly how would our newlywed to be have known where she lived in the Bronx.... hey he couldn't just look it up on the computer... You've lost me as a viewer.... won't even go into "LSMFT" ad compaign....

Fantastic! It got my attention.

A real must see. America has come a long way baby! Congratulations AMC. This is better than the Sopranos or Sex in the City! I just can't wait for the next episode.... This is the one that is going to send Law and Order to rest.

Congratulations to all the actors and actresses superb participation.....love every moment of it. One hour not enough.

Thank you for bringing a real series into the TV....

A perfect historical show about the early 1960's and the mores of the times.

Well done and I see many awards coming your way!

Not up to the hype...and please give us a break with the smoking! It's way over done with everyone constantly lighting up making it the centerpiece of every scene.

And now AMC enters and identity crisis! Geeeeze!! This series is NOT a movie. It doesn't have anything TO DO with movies. It's cheese...the product of pure hype...and inconsistent with programming expected by viewers. What's next? Rocky The Flying Squirrel? Go back to what you do best!

Here's a follow up on the comments by Manny and the Artist about the AMC schedule and the feeds.

At AMC we distribute two feeds of our programming to the country, an East Coast Feed and a West Coast feed. This means that Mad Men is scheduled to air on Thursday at 10PM on both the East and West Coast and at 9 in Central Time Zones.

This is the case for the overwhelming majority of viewers. Unfortunately some (very few) Cable and Satellite companies only accept our East Coast feed which which means that Mad Men airs at 7PM in their area.

If you are one of the few who missed Mad Men due to confusion about this practice, please accept our apologies, we hope you'll be able to catch up with the show during one of the many encore airings throughout the week. Check out the schedule for a full list of these airings and remember subtract 3 hours to catch it at the right time if your cable/satellite provider doesn't carry the West Coast feed.

What a great show....I was just a teenager in 1960 but I remember well my parent's parties with all the martinis. The Playboy clubs were in full swing. I well remember how as girl I just wanted to get married. Luckily the later 60s happened and I spent my life not as a wife but as a career woman. Thanks for this show ,the younger generation should see how it was....and not forget that repression.

Great Show!!!

In what bizzaro alternate universe of the 50s/60s does this show take place? During that time period, substantially every department store in NYC was Jewish owned and operated... Bloomingdales, Bergdorfs, Sachs, Macy's, Gertz, Gimbels, B. Altman, etc. Yet the show has a female character who purports to come from a little beleaguered corner of the retail business, the little known and tiny Jewish piece of the pie, who suffers from the fact that she is shut out of the gentile advertising/P.R. world, also devoid of Jews who purportedly work in "their own shops". As two people in their 60s who lived in New York in that era, my wife and I can tell you that this was nothing near the truth.

Regarding the ethic of secretaries having to put out and put up with sexist degradation, I'm sure it existed throughout the country and New York as well then as it does today. We can't speak for Dallas or Little Rock, but from the experience wy wife had in that time frame as a bookkeeper in various offices in Manhattan, we can tell you that it certainly was the exception, not the norm. Behaviour like that was never seen by her. Any hearsay regarding such behaviour was accompanied by stories of talking back and/or quitting, as there was ample opportunity for employment in Manhattan that bore no resemblence to 80s style behaviour coming out of Russia.

Are there any writers on your staff who have ever spoken to people over 50?

What was the song at the end of the first episode?

Maybe Mad Men will be a great show, but there's one reason why I won't watch it, ever.

When I was trying to watch The Godfather series last week, every time AMC cut to commercial they ran an obnoxious Mad Men promo, so much so that I was burned out on the show before it even premiered.

Whoever made the management decision to run so many promos for this show really blew it bigtime.

Exceptional! In just one hour, some great characters set the tone for some upcoming exciting. I can't wait to see where Don Draper's career takes him! The ending scene with his wife and kids floored me. Here I thought he was a single guy until he went home and became Mr. Family Man. It will be interesting to see how he will balance his business and family life!

Maggie Siff as Rachel Menken wears a dramatic gown in the scene at the end of the first episode where she has drinks with Don Draper.

I would appreciate any further information on that gown from AMC or anyone else who has an educated opinion.

The Correcting Selectric was invented in 1973, NOT THE 60'S!

See: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/modelb/modelb_milestone2.html

I'll give it one more week but I'm afraid this show won't make it. The only ones who can act are the lead male and Peggy. The rest are just reading their lines between puffs on their cigaretts which is overdone to the point of annoyance. This doesn't even come close to being compaired to the Sopronos.

I love Mad Men. I love the Art Direction, sets, wardrobe, even the actors. There is no other show like it on TV, nor has there ever been. Being interested in 50's/60's culture and advertising this show is perfect for me. I think Mad Men deserves to be on the air by the sheer originality of its idea. The story, compelling, but not yet spellbinding. But, as with any show you give a chance, you can become hooked as the plot becomes more personal. I believe that will happen with Mad Men.

I graduated from art school in 1960 (I'm female), and promptly got a job as an assistant art director in an ad agency. I continued to work in the field, eventually becoming a creative director at a huge firm, until 2003.

I must congratulate the forces behind "Mad Men" for getting it essentially right. Watching this series has become an obsession. I've been in that world throughout my career, but have still been shocked at revisiting the vices, sexism and racism so accurately portrayed. Guess I'd forgotten.

Thank you so much.

do we know if theres going to be a dvd made???

i hope so