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,