Mad Men Season 4

Season Premiere July 25.

Last night season 1 marathon
Mon July 12 season 2 marathon starts at 8pm
Mon July 19 season 3 marathon starts at 8 pm

I watched a few epsiodes last night.

 

I can't wait, obviously.

I caught some 1959 Vincent Price movie the other night and couldn't help but mentally drink in the scenery and props to check them against "Mad Men"'s version of the time period.

 

I can't wait. I just finished rewatching season 2 yesterday. I need me some Don Draper.

 

I'm excited for the new episodes, but as a recent MM convert, need to get through all of season 3 first.

Seasons 1-3 are now on sale at iTunes for $9.99, by the way.

 

Are they On Demand?

 

My FIOS has Season 1 on demand earlier in the summer and has Season 2 now. We're halfway through Season 3 now and hope to be caught up well in advance of the new run. If it isn't as good as The Sopranos, it's pretty darn close.

 

I hope season 4 has a lot of Betty Draper.

 

Man, I'm going to be on vacation July 25. Better be no power failures at home so that sucker gets DVR'd.

 

I'd say MM has crept past The Sopranos on my list of all-time favs. Still behind the Wire but its so good, I think Weiner has overtaken Chase as a showrunner/writer.

 

MM hits too close to home for me not to love it. Neither The Sopranos
nor Mad Men are perfect. The last portion of Season Three's final episode
of MM was just too pat for words; yeah, I wanted SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER












to see all those characters salvaged, too, but some of that late business
was more coincidental than some eyeroller by O. Henry.

Sopranos still has that junky first half of the final season to answer for.
What space-filling tripe, and it isn't any better on second viewing.
Yeah, I'm picking nits -- the series was dynamite -- but the people involved
were and are better than that. But time pressure wounds too many
creative projects, and will, again.

 

Got into Mad Men late, but got caught up during the spring. It's hard to find a show where nearly every main character is completely unlikeable on some level, but this might be it.

I really hate Don, but I hate Betty more. At least Don seems to love his children.

I find myself rooting for the ancillary characters, like Ken, Sal, Paul, Joan and even Pete.

As for The Sopranos, I've read that the reason for several of the rather useless storylines late in the series (including Vito's New Hampshire excursion) was that everyone's salary demands got so high that they couldn't afford to use all the characters as much as they wanted to.

 

I'm eagerly awaiting Season 4.
I have all 3 seasons on Blu-Ray and plan on watching the last couple of season 3 to refresh me on the plot.
Since I dropped HBO and lost Entourage, this is really the only show I watch.