Mad Men’s Rich Sommer: The TV Squad Interview

July 24th, 2008 | Category: TV News

Filed under: Interviews, Celebrities, Reality-Free, Mad Men

Mad Men is that rare show that is damn approach perfect. Of course, I say “near” perfect though I can’t figure out what fault the show has. Everything, from the acting to the writing to the direction to the set design to the music to the costumes - is so well done. Heck, even the secondary characters are drawn in a way you hardly ever see on a television drama.

OK, it is perfect.

Rich Sommer plays Harry Crane, the Sterling Cooper ad exec with the glasses and bow tie. The character is so well written

and Sommer plays him so well. You know guys like Harry, whether it’s 1960 or 2008. He’s the nice, married guy with glasses, but he’s not so nice that he isn’t above joining in on the sexist talk with his buddies and drinking too much.

Rich was nice ample to talk to me via e-mail while he was filming the moment season of the show, which debuts that Sunday (new day) at 10pm on AMC.

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