Mad Men Season 2 encore (and Breaking Bad Season 2) begins March 8
Beginning Sun., Mar. 8 at midnight (following the premiere of Breaking Bad), Mad Men Season 2 returns for encore presentations.
I’m interested in seeing how Breaking Bad continues after its very short first season, but I am more interested in rewatching season 2 of the best show on television, Mad Men.
Something about this show moves me but internally, subconsciously or something, an undertow. Maybe it’s like the Waltons was for my parents (or little house on the prairie for my great grandparents), making me nostalgic for something I never experienced.
Mad Men is so amazingly well done, it blooms like a song or ballet. Something majestic, complex and beautiful while understated with a rhythm that makes me forget to notice how perfectly it is all laid out, seamlessly, every part doing exactly what it should so that each piece becomes almost transparent in the whole. The writing, direction, production, the acting, everything about the show is outstanding. It makes me remember when HBO had incredible programming, except without the cursing and nudity (not that there is anything wrong with that, it is just too easy to get distracted when you know there is a possibility of seeing Joan disrobe).