So I'm always getting tv shows from the library on dvd and watching them to put me to sleep at night. I made the msitake of getting the first season of
Mad Men a couple of weeks ago. I say 'mistake' because I can't sleep while this show is on. I wasn't too sure at first, but by the season finale ("The Wheel"), I was hooked. I think some of the show's (very few) critics are correct in pointing out that this is a series that wants to have and eat it's cake. While it tends to go overboard on depicting old-school sexism, the show can be seen to be contributing to sexism the way it clearly "objectifies" its women. Frankly, I don't care. I can't figure out why, but this is a show that makes you think. Quite rare these days. While it doesn't appeal to the drive-in junky in me the way
Breaking Bad does, I think this may actually be the better of AMC's original two series (I haven't watched
The Killing yet. It'll be another one I get on board late, mostly because I'm rewatching the entire
Twin Peaks series at my brother's house on movie night so I don't need two running stories about a dead girl...)
Just a side note, in 2002 I was without regular work in L.A. I had to take jobs as an "extra" on tv shows. I was always cast as either a lawyer, politician, or cop or security guard. One of my first gigs was on a show with Sally Field called
The Court. Don't feel bad if you missed it, it was on for about six episodes. Anyway, the director singled me out to do a little bit with a young blonde actress where she walks into the courtroom and heads in the wrong direction, so I grab her and redirect her to where she's supposed to be. I remember that young lady quite well because she had big, round, gorgreous eyes and a hell of a body. I just learned, by watching
Mad Men (I'm on season two now) that the name of that young actress was/is Christina Hendricks. Oh well. Even back then she was way, way out of my league... (And I don't even believe in "leagues")
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