"Mad Men" (2007) More at IMDb Pro »TV series 2007-????

I stuck it out with "Mad Men" for a few weeks. I was trying to see the fantastic new show everybody kept talking about. Sadly, it wasn't there. I think people like it because it's the first scripted AMC series since "Hu$tle," because of the colors, and because it comes from Matthew Weiner of "The Sopranos." The few things I like about it are mostly style and atmosphere, not story or performance quality. In fact, the stories are very similar-- it's kind of like a miniseries that is now running indefinitely-- and the performances are actually very bad, except from Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss-- and the lines they deliver are still not that impressive. The attitude of "Go ahead and do this stuff-- it's not gonna kill you" would have been interesting back when we first found out that the products these people sold actually killed us. However, the show now feels clunky and dated. Then, of course, there is the sex that happens in (at least what seems like) every episode. It's almost as if viewers would dry up and crumble if they watched a show where everybody kept their clothes on. All that aside, this isn't a bad show-- just an insipidly bland and indistinguishable one.