David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. Watch “Mad Men” and I’ll shut up about it already
Another terrific episode of “Mad Men” tonight: Don’s (Jon Hamm) winning an advertising award brings an unwanted repercussion: The appearance of his long lost brother, who tells him their mother is dead. “Good,” he replies.
More trouble for Don: His secretary Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) overhears his mistress (Rosemarie DeWitt) calling him, beseeching him for sex. More repercussions, and this ping from his wife (January Jones): “You probably know more about him than I do,” she tells Peggy.
And boy, are these guys petty, and venal, and self-destructive, and all that: When a colleague gets a short story published in Atlantic Monthly, wormy Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) gets so jealous he implores his new wife to seduce her first lover into getting him published. She succeeds, sort of, humiliating Pete all the more.
“Mad Men” continues to be rich in character and dialogue and the small incident; there’s no big, splashy showdowns or shouting to the rooftops here, which might explain why only about a million people or so are watching it any given Thursday (still, that’s a lot better than what AMC usually does). Nonetheless, if it keeps up at this rate (and the next couple of episodes are pretty good, too), the show threatens to enter the pantheon of greatness. But don’t hold that against it; just enjoy.
- “Mad Men:” 10 tonight, AMC.
Comments
Add me to your chorus. I love this show. It's one of the best to come along in quite some time. If people aren't watching it, they're really missing a treat. The attention to period detail is amazing (with apologies to Katie Holmes), and the casting is spot-on. The writing, the characters, the storylines...all first rate.
All of this can only mean one thing: It will surely be cancelled.
Posted by: Suzy Q | August 16, 2007 6:04 PM