Dec 252009
Canadians are in luck. There’s a Mad Men marathon this weekend!
The best reason to stay indoors this weekend is the opportunity to revisit the entire first season of Mad Men (Bravo!, episodes 1-7, Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; episodes 8-13, Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.).
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Meh. Bravo didn't even carry Season 3 this year, so I had to watch the show online. And I already own both seasons on DVD (as do 95% of the people who follow the show), so I see very little reason to get excited.
Bravo also has a habit of cutting out MINUTES from the show to allow more space for commercials (I didn't believe it myself until I compared the episodes on my DVDs with the ones airing on Bravo).
So screw them!!!
Bravo also has a habit of cutting out MINUTES from the show to allow more space for commercials (I didn’t believe it myself until I compared the episodes on my DVDs with the ones airing on Bravo).
ITfM, AMC has done the same thing from the very beginning. And by the very beginning I mean, from the very first 11:00 pm, aka encore, showing of the S1 episodes. I got a little upset about it.
Salvatore Romano: "Well, our worst fears lie in anticipation. That’s not me, that’s Balzak."
It's spelled "Balzac" — the French (not Eastern European) 19th century novelist.
"One of the founders of realism in European literature" Balzac's work was a "keen observation of detail and unfiltered representation of society," (how Mad Men of him!) Balzac influenced novelists from Proust to Jack Kerouac.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balza…
And he's still a great read. (Start with "Nana," the tale of the rise of an actress/prostitute through the highest reaches of Parisian society.)
Ooops, here I go making literary mistakes: "Nana" is Zola (although still a fun read), and "Cousin Bette" is Balzac (although it, too, includes as a character a prostitute and her rise in society.)
I'm watching "Singing In the Rain." Wouldn't it be great if Matt staged a fantasy of Betty's with a black-patent-haired Don being Gene Kelly and falling in love with her (blonde-and-blue-eyed-Debbie-Reynolds) that was Betty!!!