HBO‘s 4K transfer is Mad Men like you’ve never seen it before: Fans have noted crew members popping up in unexpected places, including manning a puke machine in Season 1’s “Red in the Face.”
Remastering often begins with raw or barely-processed footage, as opposed to film edited in post-production. Get it right, and you can draw in new audiences or milk collectors for all their DVD money. But get it wrong, and you might damage color saturation or reveal details that have never been seen for very good reasons. Binge-watchers may recall a similar controversy around the crew and colors of that remastered Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Update: HBO is blaming the mix-up on Lionsgate, saying they were given the wrong files. Lionsgate is now working on handing over the correct footage.
Like the coffee cup in Game of Thrones, these mistakes probably won’t be around forever. Mad Men is on HBO now.
the new 4K transfer of mad men on HBO somehow does not have any of the post-production edits added in, which means you get stuff like this where you can see the crew member manning the puke machine after Roger has too many oysters lmao pic.twitter.com/HNgPRNOsla
— johnny (@bigrackspart7) December 2, 2025
