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post #1 of 25
7/13/09 at 12:16am
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never too early to start one.
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post #2 of 25
7/13/09 at 12:17am
I haven't been this excited for a show coming back since.....maybe ever.
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post #3 of 25
7/13/09 at 12:20am
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me too. cannot wait.
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post #4 of 25
7/13/09 at 12:24am
Spoiler Alert: Draper is the last Cylon!

I can't wait, Mad Men and, this may sting, Psych, are my two favorite shows on TV now they canceled Life.

I am going to buy the Blu-Ray DVDs, I heard they look amazing.
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post #5 of 25
7/13/09 at 12:56am
When is it?
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post #6 of 25
7/13/09 at 1:12am
I really don't understand the hype over this show. I watched both seasons recently and I was bored to tears. Yeah, the clothes are great and I want to maul Christina Hendricks like a lion on 40 midgets, but it's so slow and meandering and I find it hard to get invested in any of the characters. Now Breaking Bad, on the other hand, is the best show on TV since The Wire went the way of the Dodo.
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post #7 of 25
7/13/09 at 1:16am
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I really don't understand the hype over this show. I watched both seasons recently and I was bored to tears. Yeah, the clothes are great and I want to maul Christina Hendricks like a lion on 40 midgets, but it's so slow and meandering and I find it hard to get invested in any of the characters.

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post #8 of 25
7/13/09 at 1:56am
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I really don't understand the hype over this show. I watched both seasons recently and I was bored to tears. Yeah, the clothes are great and I want to maul Christina Hendricks like a lion on 40 midgets, but it's so slow and meandering and I find it hard to get invested in any of the characters.

Now Breaking Bad, on the other hand, is the best show on TV since The Wire went the way of the Dodo.

Not to derail this thread, because Mad Men is a cool show (particularly if you can marathon some episodes to get the full effect) but the second season of Breaking Bad was intense. I was riveted like I haven't been since The Shield.

I don't find myself drooling over Christina Hendricks, but whatever. Not my type. Her character undeniably adds to the show.
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post #9 of 25
7/13/09 at 11:44am
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When is it?
August 16th. I crack up thinking about the picnic scene from last season.
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post #10 of 25
7/13/09 at 11:50am
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August 16th.

I crack up thinking about the picnic scene from last season.

you mean the "we're done with it - so just throw all that shit over there" part?



I am thrilled for the next season, I wonder what is going to happen with the merger and Duck Phillips and Don not having a contract, etc.
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post #11 of 25
7/13/09 at 11:50am
I like the show, but it can be maddeningly slow. The episode that sticks in my mind is the one where they have a birthday party for Sally, and Don builds her playhouse, pouding about 10 beers in the process. The camera makes it a point to follow him to the fridge every time, so it sets up the expectation that he is getting loaded and some horrible scene will follow. Then ... nothing happens. He goes to get the cake and just stays out all day.

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post #12 of 25
7/13/09 at 11:54am
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I like the show, but it can be maddeningly slow. The episode that sticks in my mind is the one where they have a birthday party for Sally, and Don builds her playhouse, pouding about 10 beers in the process. The camera makes it a point to follow him to the fridge every time, so it sets up the expectation that he is getting loaded and some horrible scene will follow. Then ... nothing happens. He goes to get the cake and just stays out all day.


the point was he was thisclose to visiting Ms. Menkel and having another affair during his daughter's birthday party. And he was likely drunk when driving there. But, as you know, he does not, he simply dozes off in his car under some random bridge.

Part of what I like about the show are the little things. In any current drama, he would have gotten drunk, swindled some cash, bought some weed, raided a casino, and picked up 2 hookers just to show what a badass he is. This show doesn't do that way (at least for the most part). I tend to like it that way.
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post #13 of 25
7/13/09 at 11:54am
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what happened was oblique but definitely horrible, not in a sci-fi or overly dramatic way, but in a way that speaks to disaffected suburbanites wondering why they bother...or at least to this one.
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post #14 of 25
7/13/09 at 12:05pm
still such a long time away....
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post #15 of 25
7/13/09 at 12:14pm
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August 16th.

I crack up thinking about the picnic scene from last season.

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you mean the "we're done with it - so just throw all that shit over there" part?

Yeah my jaw literally dropped when I saw Don littering in the park that first season. While I'm not too crazy about the clothes I enjoy watching the show from the perspective of a period piece and comparing the social contrasts between then and now.

Christina Hendricks is a doll and I prefer January Jones' 60s look better than her contemporary one.
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