Mad Men’s 4K debut botched by HBO Max streaming episode with visible crewmembers

December 3, 2025

TL;DR

HBO Max released a 4K version of *Mad Men*, which originally aired from 2007 to 2015.
Viewers discovered visible crew members in a 4K stream of Season 1, Episode 7, specifically during a scene where Roger Sterling vomits.
A report suggests Lionsgate provided HBO Max with the wrong file, and is working to supply the correct one.
This incident illustrates the challenges of remastering content for higher resolutions and the necessity of human review.
Previous remastering issues include visible crew in *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* and alterations to scenes in *Seinfeld* upon its release on Netflix.

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