《Mad Men》是由American Movie Classics公司出品的美剧。 该剧曾获得第65届、第66届、第67届美国电影电视金球奖最佳电视剧,并连续四年夺得艾美奖剧情类最佳电视剧奖。 1960年代,美国的广告业步入全盛时代,位于曼哈顿的麦迪逊大道有数百家广告公司,斯特林·库帕公司堪称行业中的佼佼者。创意总监唐·德雷柏(乔·哈姆 Jon Hamm 饰)面容英俊,体格健硕,足智多谋,仿佛广告业中的007。除此,公司中还有酷爱炫耀其上流社会出生的老板罗杰·斯特林(约翰·斯拉特里 John Slattery 饰)、识时务的秘书佩吉·奥尔森(伊丽莎白·莫斯 Elisabeth Moss 饰)、野心勃勃却缺乏真才实学的拜特·坎贝尔(文森特·卡塞瑟 Vincent Kartheiser 饰)等各色人等,他们一边为了满足客户的要求殚精竭虑,一边又要在生活的困顿中挣扎。
“In the early 1990s, at the height of the international war on drugs, the government agency in charge of Britain’s borders, Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, realized that they were losing the battle against drug smuggling. Their solution was extraordinary,” reads the logline. “In a top-secret operation, a small team of British Customs employees were sent undercover. Their task – to infiltrate Britain’s most dangerous drug gangs.” “They were not trained spies. These were ordinary men and women, plucked from ordinary lives around the U.K, put through a basic training regime then told to build new identities in the criminal underworld. These identities were called Legends.
改编自维克托·拉瓦列2013年的小说《The Devil in Silver》。聚焦搬运工人Pepper(丹·史蒂文斯 Dan Stevens 饰),因为坏运气和坏脾气,他被送到了一所名为New Hyde的精神病院,里面满是被社会遗忘的人。Pepper想要获得自由,就必须面对与他作 对的病人、怀着阴森目的的医生,甚至恶魔本人。这里是地狱般的地方,任何事情都不是表面那样,Pepper必须直接面对一个以New Hyde里人们的苦痛来蓬勃壮大的存在,但这样可能会证明:最可怕的恶魔恰恰是他自己。