So, I guess I'm dropping TV entirely this season. I'm catching such little bits and pieces of True Blood, the entire season has become annoying to me.

As for Mad Men, what moroon decided they should skip the entire premise they set up at the end of last season that most fans were very excited about? I don't think I can get over that. Buh-bye.

Yep. Pretty sure you're not supposed to be tearing your flesh.

What premise would that be?

A handful of the main characters cleverly arranged for their own firing from the ad agency that was being bought out by a corporate behemoth, and they were starting from scratch, working out of a hotel suite, hopeful to persuade some of the agency's clients to come with them, and working themselves up from absolute bottom.


This season - they are well-established in a beautiful suite of high-rent Manhattan offices with an agency that's already got a reputation for outside-the-box brilliance - albeit most of their business relies on one big client.


They skipped a year. A year which the main character has already referred to as one of the most exciting years of his entire career.

WTF?

From my relatively brief forays into teaching it isn't smug self-satisfaction but rather consternation that either they don't know (which is bad in two ways) or they're too timid to participate (which is simply annoying).

Oh, I haven't seen the show so I hadn't realize it was a reboot of Bosom Buddies. I take it Christina Hendricks is the modern take on Wendie Jo Sperber.

They are not well established. They are barely hanging on. In the first episode of the season Lane commented on the fact that the offices were more lavish than they could afford. Their only high-end client accounts for 71% of their business. If they lose that one account, they're dead.

Outside-the-box brilliance does not necessarily make you successful.

fyi - Purchased Julie Andrews' book "Home" at borders for $4.99!! :)

Yeah, well Don said in his better interview that we'd all just missed the most exciting year of his career. How nice.

Especially if "exciting" was code for near-disastrous. ;)

Oh, for some it's definitely the smug.

But yes, I was being mostly facetious, I know they just want to see if anyone's learning. But just the same, I can't stand that pause. I just want to answer to get it over with so we can move on.