The new, 4K version of Mad Men on HBO Max was supposed to deliver the ground-breaking AMC series with near-perfect visual fidelity.

Instead, it was a debacle.

Not only were a number of episodes mislabeled, but in a crucial scene early in the period series—the infamous moment when an inebriated Roger Sterling tosses up the oysters he ate for lunch—a pair of crew members in modern-day street clothes were clearly visible, with one of them holding the hose required for the throw-up gag.

In other words, the 4K remaster that was supposed to make Mad Men even better managed to make it worse.

The good news, according to The Hollywood Reporter , is that the 4K Mad Men blunder stems from a simple mix-up: Lionsgate, the show’s distributor, apparently gave the wrong 4K files to HBO Max ,

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