Streaming Mad Men

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I’ve done at least three substantial rewatches of this series, but those were When I was preparing to watch one of the final few seasons and wanted to remind myself of what I come before. I decided to start watching it again over the long weekend. I’ve read a few takes over the last couple of years that some critics think it doesn’t hold up very well, but I still think it’s stunning and easily a top five show ever. Couple of things:

1. I signed up for the seven day free trial through Amazon to watch it on AMC, Specifying that I Wanted the ad free Tier after the trial. I guess I expected it to be at free during the trial too, but most of the episodes begin with an ad of some kind although none during the show. On reflection, I guess it’s not unreasonable to get ads during the free Trial, though they had asked, I might’ve skipped the free trial and just said I’ll start paying for it now if they will get rid of all the ads.

2. I’m not sure if it’s because of this, but one thing that bugs me is the transition from the music that plays over the final seconds of the last scene of an episode does not seamlessly blend into what I recall as the complete song playing over that credits. There’s an edit almost as if it’s about to go to a commercial, but then it jumps to the credits often with the song am I remembering it wrong? Is this the way it was originally or is there a reason why they have that bumpy edit?

3. I have a list somewhere in my files of all the music played at the end of each episode then I could dig out to check, but it does seem like there are several episodes where they’re not even playing the original music to end an episode but are just going right to the Mad Men theme. I guess that has something to do with music rights, Which is a common enough problem like on DVDs or maybe even streaming on another service but I guess I would’ve thought that AMC would have the rights to replay all of the episodes as they originally aired on its own service.

4. I am just up to episode three season three (“ My old Kentucky home”) Which is a cringe classic. AMC begins this with a trigger warning for the black face scenes; I don’t know if that was discussed here when they first did that if so, I missed it or forgot it. Anybody know when they added, and that was it around the time that some kind of disclaimer was added it to “Gone with the wind?” I would prefer they not have disclaimers at the beginning of an episode for things like that but instead had five minutes of discussion after every episode of this show discussing historical issues which could include gender and racial behaviors and language that would be unacceptable today, but were less so Mid-century. But I guess I should just be grateful they didn’t edit out those scenes from the episode.

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