"In the famous season-one episode that ends with Roger Sterling drunkenly puking up oysters all over the office floor in front of prospective clients, HBO Max's 4K version clearly shows a set technician holding a hose to simulate the vomit in the side of the frame - an error that wasn't in-frame in the television release, on the Mad Men DVD or Blu-ray, or the HD digital release that's been streaming for well over a decade."
"But the screwups don't end there. That same oyster-vomit episode, "Red in the Face," was also mislabeled on HBO Max. It's currently listed as another season-one episode, "Babylon." And another episode from the first season, "5G", which focuses on Don Draper's relationship with his brother, Adam Whitman, is the one labeled as "Red in the Face." We've reached out to HBO Max, Lionsgate Television, and showrunner Matthew Weiner about these errors and hope to get answers."
Rewatchers who returned when Mad Men arrived on HBO Max on December 1 noticed immediate problems. In a season-one episode ending with Roger Sterling vomiting oysters, HBO Max's 4K version shows a set technician holding a hose to simulate vomit in the frame, an error absent from broadcast, DVD, Blu-ray, and prior HD streams. Episode labels are also wrong: "Red in the Face" is listed as "Babylon", while "5G" is labeled as "Red in the Face". HBO Max, Lionsgate Television, and showrunner Matthew Weiner have been contacted, and the platform had not corrected or pulled the series as of the morning after release.
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