num_pages: 464
description: 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 Seitzs celebrated Mad Men recaps as featured on New York magazine's Vulture blogfor the first time including never-before-published essays on the shows first three seasons. Seitzs writing digs deep into the shows themes performances and filmmaking examining complex and sometimes confounding aspects of the series. The complete seriesa ll seven seasons and ninety-two episodesis 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. Clarkes 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 shows first-season finale The Wheel wherein Don delivers an unforgettable pitch for a new slide projector thats centered on the idea of the pain from an old wound. This book will soothe the most ardent Mad Men fans 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 The Oliver Stone Experience  The Wes Anderson Bad Dads  The Wes Anderson The Grand Budapest Hotel  and The Wes Anderson Collection . 
language: English
title: Mad Men Carousel: The Complete Critical Companion
publisher: Abrams