Posted AT 3:05 AM EDT on 21/07/08
The beauty of Mad Men is in the details
LOS ANGELES — The other day a bunch of us critics got on a bus and went to visit the set of Mad Men.Unless you've completely ignored the TV world for the last year you'll know about Mad Men - set in the offices of Sterling Cooper, an ad agency in New York in the early 1960s, it's about that era. It's about the ad agency bosses - all men - and the women in their lives.
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