"Everyone had a good laugh at HBO Max this week when the new 4K Mad Men remaster debuted with a number of glaring errors that should have been caught before the show was uploaded to the streamer's servers. Episodes went live with incorrect titles, and in one instance you could still see members of the show's production crew who shouldn't have been visible on-camera."
"It is wild to think that no one at HBO noticed that the remastered "Red in the Face" episode still included a clear shot of Mad Men special effects foreman Shannon Thompson. When I recently spoke with Thompson - whose past credits include The Mask, From Dusk Till Dawn, American History X, Dune: Part One, and the new Matlock reboot - he told me that he hasn't had time to check out HBO's remaster."
"I've always known that I liked doing creative, mechanical things like pyrotechnics and stuff like that, so, I started working in props, and sometimes there's cross over with that and special effects. I ended up meeting these two effects guys and immediately got along with them. They pulled me in, and I've been doing this"
A new 4K Mad Men remaster on HBO Max debuted with multiple technical errors, including incorrect episode titles and visible members of the production crew on-camera. The visible crew appearance occurred in the remastered 'Red in the Face' and featured special effects foreman Shannon Thompson. The mistakes resulted from Lionsgate Television sending the wrong set of exported files. Shannon Thompson's credits include The Mask, From Dusk Till Dawn, American History X, Dune: Part One, and the Matlock reboot. Thompson sees the visible shot as an example of invisible special effects work that helps make mundane television feel authentic. Thompson began in props, drawn to pyrotechnics and mechanical effects, and moved into special effects after meeting two effects colleagues.
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