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 writing digs deep into the show's themes, performances, and
filmmaking, examining complex and sometimes confounding aspects of the
series. The complete series--all** seven seasons and ninety-two
episodes--is covered.**
Each episode review also includes brief explanations of locations,
events, consumer products, and scientific advancements that are
important to the characters, such as P.J. Clarke's restaurant and the
old Penn Station; the inventions of the birth control pill, the Xerox
machine, and the Apollo Lunar Module; the release of the Beatles'
Revolver and the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds; and all the wars, protests,
assassinations, and murders that cast a bloody pall over a chaotic
decade.
Mad Men Carousel is named after an iconic moment from the show's
first-season finale, "The Wheel," wherein Don delivers an unforgettable
pitch for a new slide projector that's centered on the idea of
nostalgia: "the pain from an old wound." This book will soothe the
most ardent Mad Men fan's nostalgia for the show. New viewers, who
will want to binge-watch their way through one of the most popular TV
shows in recent memory, will discover a spoiler-friendly companion
to one of the most multilayered and mercurial TV shows of all time.
It's the perfect gift for Mad Men fans and obsessives.
Also available from Matt Zoller Seitz: The Oliver Stone Experience,
The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads, The Wes Anderson Collection:
The Grand Budapest Hotel, and The Wes Anderson Collection.
