The ‘Mad Men’ Episode(s) That Got Us Hooked
The Prestige TV Podcast
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4.2 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome back to the prestige TV podcast feed. I'm Joanna Robinson. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm Rob Mahoney. |
| 0:18.3 | We're here with another episode of Hooked, the mini-series that we have put together as an excuse, |
| 0:25.1 | the thinly veiled excuse for Rob and yours really to watch some of our favorite shows, |
| 0:30.4 | re-watch some of our favorite shows and talk to you about them. |
| 0:32.9 | But really, Rob, what is this mini-series about? |
| 0:37.4 | I'm glad you asked you. Everyone's been talking about it. |
| 0:40.0 | A lot of chatter about hooked, which is our way of proposing if you were trying to get someone |
| 0:44.7 | in your life to watch a show with you. What is the one episode of that show you would use to get |
| 0:49.6 | them hooked? Register a trademark. So today, we're talking about a little show called Mad Men. |
| 0:57.3 | And something that we did not intend to do, and we sort of shuffled around which shows we would talk about in which order, is to do back-to-back AMC shows that premiered one year apart from each other. |
| 1:08.0 | But that is where we have found ourselves here to talk to you about Mad Men, which happens to be our producer, Kai Grady's favorite show. |
| 1:16.2 | So this episode, like many, is dedicated to Kai Grady. |
| 1:21.0 | Of course. |
| 1:21.6 | I'm going to hit the spoiler warning here at the top, which I didn't do last weekend. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm just going to do it here. |
| 1:27.0 | We're going to talk about three episodes of Mad Men, essentially, today. We're going to touch on the pilot, which, you know, per the premise of this podcast is not, we think, necessarily the best entry point for Mad Men. We're going to talk about season one episode three, which is my pick for what I think is the episode that it'll get you hooked into Mad Men. And then we're going to talk about season one episode three, which is my pick for what I think is the episode that |
| 1:44.2 | it'll get you hooked into Mad Men. And then we're going to talk about season one episode |
| 1:47.6 | 11, which is Rob's pick for the episode. So spoilers, I guess, up through episode 11 of season |
| 1:53.7 | one of Mad Men. I think we'll be, we'll be gentle about it. Very gentle, but just wanted to |
| 1:59.4 | give people warning in case they were particularly squeamish about it. Very gentle, but just wanted to give people warning in case they were particularly |
| 2:02.6 | squeamish about it. So why Mad Men, other than that it's Kai Grady's favorite show, and that is |
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