Not much to say. Everyone's an asshole, so you watch it without caring or getting involved.
Cannoli Send a noteboard - 27/03/2012 06:17:30 PM
And yet the show has just created a revival of French ye-ye pop after one episode. The hiatus was definitely too long, but the show is now back and seems to be as good as ever. Did anyone else watch the premiere?
It's no coincidence that until this very month, the actors on Mad Men had played villains in just about everything I've seen them in.
Jon Hamm in Bridesmaids, Sucker Punch & The Town
January Jones in X-men First Class and Unknown.
John Slattery in Adjustment Bureau
Jared Harris in Sherlock Holmes 2, and Fringe (though he played a mildly sympathetic scientist in Resident Evil 2, but who was responsible for the zombie plague)
Vincent Kartheiser in Angel
Christina Hendricks on Firefly & Drive
Actors from Mad Men play antagonists, like actors from Deadwood play cops. It's probably symptomatic of something with the show and its own view of its characters. I can watch it, enjoy watching it, and admire the writing and acting and whatnot, but at the end of the show, it's done and I'm not engaged. My appreciation is strictly abstract and objective, so I feel no need to really talk about it. Maybe that even says the show is better for not using emotional manipulation to hook the audience, but it also leaves me without the urge to share my experience with anyone. I keep trying to interest friends and family in The Wire, or Breaking Bad, but when someone mentions Mad Men, I kind of just shrug and go, "yeah, that's pretty good too." The other shows seem to have a point, and Mad Men really doesn't, other than "Look: Assholes!!"
Cannoli
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
"Sometimes unhinged, sometimes unfair, always entertaining"
- The Crownless
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
Deus Vult!
It really looks like no one watches Mad Men based on the absence of discussion.
- 27/03/2012 02:44:01 PM
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I intend to, at some point. Though as Stephen notes, the DVDs are expensive. *NM*
- 27/03/2012 06:13:04 PM
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People buy DVDs? I thought everything was streaming or Blu-Ray now.
- 27/03/2012 06:15:07 PM
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I'm still hoping Blu-Ray will go the way of the betacam.
- 28/03/2012 10:38:22 PM
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It won't.
- 29/03/2012 01:29:52 AM
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I don't watch my DVDs on a TV. 
*NM*
- 30/03/2012 08:52:27 PM
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*NM*
- 30/03/2012 08:52:27 PM
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You're also by default saying you can't pay for Netflix streaming
- 30/03/2012 11:41:40 PM
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As far as I know Netflix is only available in the UK and Ireland in Europe
- 31/03/2012 02:52:55 PM
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No you don't. 
- 30/03/2012 01:40:57 PM
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- 30/03/2012 01:40:57 PM
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Not much to say. Everyone's an asshole, so you watch it without caring or getting involved.
- 27/03/2012 06:17:30 PM
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Hamm was the cop in The Town
- 27/03/2012 10:56:11 PM
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Yes, but that role still fits the common thread of casting and how it relates to Mad Men
- 27/03/2012 11:58:47 PM
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I think you're selectively remembering roles for many of the cast members.
- 28/03/2012 01:09:35 AM
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Re: I think you're selectively remembering roles for many of the cast members.
- 28/03/2012 08:36:10 AM
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I do
- 28/03/2012 12:51:11 AM
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I was unable to secure my Auchentoshan so I went with the Glenfidditch 30 year.
- 28/03/2012 01:17:29 AM
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I've never seen more than about 3 minutes of an episode. The idea is not interesting to me. *NM*
- 29/03/2012 03:25:13 PM
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I've chosen to watch the much inferior Pan Am. Hey, at least they're hot. *NM*
- 29/03/2012 10:06:48 PM
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Totally. *NM*
- 30/03/2012 08:55:47 PM
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Didn't they cancel that show after 3 episodes or something? *NM*
- 30/03/2012 11:40:57 PM
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Not quite, but it does appear to be cancelled
- 31/03/2012 05:06:45 AM
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