Mad Men 4K Remaster on HBO Max Reveals Crew Error

HBO Max's recent launch of a 4K remastered version of the acclaimed series Mad Men has drawn attention not just for its enhanced visuals, but for a series of technical errors that exposed behind-the-scenes elements unintended for viewers. The streaming service added the upgraded seven-season run to its platform on Monday, allowing fans to revisit the 1960s advertising world in sharper detail, only for eagle-eyed audiences to spot glaring mistakes, including two crew members visibly operating a fake vomiting device during a key scene in the first season.

The most prominent flub occurs in "Red in the Face," the seventh episode of season one, where John Slattery's character, Roger Sterling, regurgitates oysters in front of colleagues after a boozy lunch with Don Draper, played by Jon Hamm. In the 4K version, viewers can clearly see the crew members adjusting tubes behind Sterling, an oversight that was absent in the original 2007 broadcast and subsequent streams. Social media users quickly highlighted the error, with one post on X garnering over 19,000 likes and hundreds of thousands of views. "The new 4K transfer of Mad Men on HBO somehow does not have any of the postproduction...