1960’lar… Reklamcılığın altın çağı. Merkezinde New York’un dahi ve rekabetçi çocukları. Başroldeyse değişen zamana ayak uydurmaya çalışan reklam gurusu Don Draper.
En İyi Drama ve Erkek Oyuncu dallarında Altın Küre kazanan Mad Men, gerçeklerle yalanlar arasındaki ince çizgiyi bulandırmaya ve 60’ların dekorunda insan doğasını irdelemeye devam ediyor. The Sopranos’un Emmy ödüllü yapımcı ve yazarı Matthew Weiner’dan gerçeğin nasıl satılabileceğine dair kışkırtıcı bir dram olan Mad Men, üç sene üst üste En İyi Dizi Emmy ve Altın Küre ödülünü kazanarak başarısını ispatladı.
The professional and personal lives of those who work in advertising on Madison Avenue - self-coined "mad men" - in the 1960s are presented. The stories focus on those at one of the avenue's smaller firms, Sterling Cooper, and its various incarnations over the decade. At the heart of these stories is Donald Draper, the creative genius of the company. That professional creative brilliance belies the fact of a troubled childhood, one that he would rather forget and not let anyone know about except for a select few, but one that shaped who he is as an adult and as an ad man in the need not only to sell products but sell himself to the outside world. His outward confidence also masks many insecurities as evidenced through his many vices, such as excessive smoking, drinking and womanizing - the latter despite being a family man - and how he deals with the aftermath of some of the negative aspects of his life.