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"The Suitcase" may well be the best episode of Mad Men to date. Not that admiration necessarily precludes critique, but as I may gush a little bit about Jennifer Getzinger's.
So, we finally struggled through the final season of the Tudors. It's been clear for some time (say, early in season one) that this was not a series that deserved.
I largely agree. After buying and watching all five seasons of The Wire last year, I struggled with an internal debate: was it better than Homicide Life on the Street?.
In the first comment to my first post on Mad Men, Tom Elrod wrote: I definitely want an update to this post once you've finished the third season. I can't.
Let me open with a quick clarification about the previous Mad Men post: as to the purview of self-fashioning, we all do it. In blog terms, you know me as.
As I noted in the comments to this post, it was only a matter of time before I started Mad Men; however, as I've studiously avoided reading about the show.
Is it just my imagination, or does the Draper marriage resemble the Soprano marriage in a lot of ways? Discuss.
This is pretty awesome. Via Gary.