Mad Men is a show about nostalgia and taking on the impossible task of recreating the past. So it makes a lot of sense that as the series finale, which airs on Sunday, May 17, quickly approaches, we all have a burning desire to look back at all of its highs and lows.
Rewatching the entire series from Season 1 or just reading old episode recaps are effective ways to do so. However, Google Play just launched a cool, new Mad Men retrospective that would impress Don Draper himself.
Google Play launched "The Mad Men Experience" on Monday, an interactive retrospective of the show's seven seasons. "The Mad Men Experience" lets you look back at the entire series by viewing photos and watching video clips of some of Mad Men's most memorable moments, which you can scroll through like that Kodak carousel. Most notably, you can stream the pilot episode of Mad Men for free on Google Play. There's no better way to get ready to see how the series ends than to remind yourself how it all began.
However, "The Mad Men Experience" doesn't just give you a refresher on what you saw on TV for eight years on AMC. You also get an in-depth look at what went into the creation of the show with exclusive behind-the-scenes content in the form of original storyboards, new documentary shorts on the inspiration for the show and episode commentary from showrunner Matthew Weiner and members of the cast. There's "more than 300 pieces of content released for the first time in a digital environment," according to Variety. It's kind of like an online museum of the series, akin to the IRL exhibition of the show currently on display at New York's Museum of the Moving Image.
"The Mad Men Experience" is Google Play's first digital project of its kind for a TV show, according to Variety, and it seems to be just as much about giving fans another medium to interact with the series as it is to drive users to purchase episodes, full seasons and music and books featured on the show from the online store. Still, it's a nice interactive experience that's worth clicking around to distract you from the fact that the end of Mad Men is near, if nothing else.
[H/T The Verge]
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