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Lickona — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:27:09 -0000

Season One of Mad Men was set in 1960, and included Kennedy's election. Season Two ended with the Cuban Missile Crisis. It's not set in 1969. And Don Draper is not a boomer - his kids are. He's 35 in '62. He'll be 65 in '92. That puts him older than the me generation, doesn't it?

But amen on its being great television, with the easiest drinking game going - every time someone on the show drinks, you drink.

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Bayouman — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:13:29 -0000

How is Mad Men going to deal with the JFK assassination? It's set in 1969. At that point, JFK is old news.

As for being an elitist show, you got another thing coming. People from all walks of life, though mostly over the age of 30, are fans of a show that takes a peek back in time at what self-centered, egotistical bastards the executives were and the genesis of the me generation that has lead to the current situation we are in now.

It's a great study of the vices and dark side of mankind as we know it.

And it makes great television! It's the Dynasty of the 60s. With pinpoint bras instead of shoulder pads.

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Leslie — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:30:35 -0000

Go watch the two John Hamm sketches from SNL -- Don Draper's advice on how to get women made me cry (from laughing).

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JK — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:44:28 -0000

Mad Men is a great show. Can't wait to see how they deal with the JFK assassination and the start of Beatlemania.

With all the attention Mad Men has been getting, let's not forget the other great dramas on cable tv.

Let's give a big shout out to The Shield (in it's final season), Rescue Me, The Riches, and Breaking Bad.

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NJM — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:21:38 -0000

can someone tell me if this link is true. This would be horrible for Mad Men's future.

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Thomas R — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:20:42 -0000

I've tried "Mad Men" and found it kind of hard to get into.

Although I agree CSI:Miami, except maybe as a drinking game or as something to MSTie, is crud. The other two CSIs are okay, if too gorey, but they're not exactly something I'd watch purely on my own initiative.

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J.C. — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:07:52 -0000

seriously, a hilarious post

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Shawn — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:42:43 -0000

So being a state employee with a decidely smaller salary mean I shouldn't be watching Mad Men? But, but, but...I love Don Draper!

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JordanT — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:23:03 -0000

Oh noes! I watch both Two and a Half Men and CSI-Miami. I also like to watch Full House as well. Where do I turn in my elitist Obama card?

In my defense CSI-Miami is a source of continual unintentional humor.

You're totally wrong - I'm atheist and it's a scotch, please.

I'm hope to earn back my elitist Obama card with my next statement. It's called whiskey, only an uneducated American would call it scotch.

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normalityrelief — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:44:25 -0000

You mean all I have to do to get a beautiful date is watch Mad Men?? That's what I've been doing wrong all this time!

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Will — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:23:45 -0000

Can someone get me an old fashioned?

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Gracchus — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:50:30 -0000

2 1/2 men is like full house: one of those sitcoms you can't imagine anyone watching, but is a big hit and is on the box for years.

I like CSI because Willaim Peterson makes the character complicated. Miami and New York have definite rightwing slants and leading men who you know are Republicans. And what city gives its cops hummers to drive? And such shiny & clean public buildings?

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res ipsa loquitur — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:25:50 -0000

I think "Mad Men" is overrated. So sue me. It's no "Wire" or "Sopranos," for sure.

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Gramsci — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:58:43 -0000

Well, we know John McCain went all Roger Sterling up in Brazil.

http://guanabee.com/2008/04/john-mccain-has-spent-a-few-ni-1.php

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JM — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:42:51 -0000

You know what I find freaky about Mad Men? It's that that chorus of hard-drinking, womanizing young men with the social attitudes that seem to date from the stone age--Pete Campbell, et al.--they're the same age as John McCain. If I were smarter, I'd explain why this shines a window into McCain's soul, but I'm not.

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JenJen — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:25:13 -0000

The esteemed Mr. Coates wrote: JenJen,

Leave now. If you were employed you could make a martini. Failing that, you are useless. Leave please. I have "Two and a Half Men" fans to sneer at.

Ummm... ok, I'll leave. I've never seen "Dancing With The Stars", so, I should probably go now. Except... I don't wanna leave!! Will you hire me for an Atlantic Party? An AMC Party? A Nielsen Party? I make the best Gimlet the world has ever tasted (check my blog!). Even in the Sixties! And I wasn't born yet!

Please, can I stay? ;-)

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Robert M — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:15:29 -0000

We all live in a yellow submarine, a yellow submarine and we sail beneath the waves...

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brucds — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:02:14 -0000

Would it be snide to note that as much as I love Mad Men, I loved Deadwood even more.

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brucds — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:58:19 -0000

I'm holding a Laphroaig neat and smoking a Joya de Nicaragua...as we speak.

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Jwh — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:29:38 -0000

You're totally wrong - I'm atheist and it's a scotch, please.

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TH — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:07:37 -0000

Damn it, you got me!

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bfnh — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:04:38 -0000

i've never watched a csi, but i watch mad men on dvr so i can avoid the commercials. i don't know what that says about me...

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jer — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:46:07 -0000

I just want to stick up for CSI:Miami here. If you watch the show properly, which is to say, if you drink every time Caruso takes off his sunglasses, says someone's name, or is suddenly revealed to be leaning on a nearby car, you will better appreciate its appeal. There's a really thick rulebook to be compiled for this drinking game.

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BS_PI — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:39:17 -0000

Shit, I like COPS.

I hope I get the top bunk at the re-education camp...

Speaking of COPS; I was watching it this past Saturday and I kept thinking to myself that portions of the show reminded me of a Sarah Palin rally.

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iamnotstarjones — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:40:29 -0000

I'm broke and I love the show.

What doesthat make me?