Mad Men: Season 1 (2007)

USA

Television Series

Creator: Matthew Weiner

Cast: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, Christina Hendricks, January Jones, Aaron Staton, Michael Gladis, Rich Sommer, John Slattery, Robert Morse, Bryan Batt, Alison Brie, Maggie Siff, Anne Dudek, Rosemarie DeWitt

With a strange sense of quiet desperation and melancholia barely kept beneath the surface, Matthew Weiner’s booze soaked, nicotine stained, and quite brilliant series follows the exploits of the workers of an advertising agency in Manhattan in 1960, centring on the enigmatic Don Draper (an excellent Jon Hamm), as they try to sell the wares of such tough sell clients as Israel, Lucky Strike, and Richard Nixon, whilst also attempting to bed as many secretaries as possible. Iain.Stott