Love doesn't exist, it was invented by guys like me to sell nylon stockings

[cappuccino_kid]

Back in the day, Dirk Bogarde refused on principle to do anything for television; "I'm not having my audience get up to have a piss or put the kettle on while I'm hard at work". I'm not really au fait with The Great American TV Series of the past decade (The Wire, Sopranos et al), but unless you live in a bubble, even the most ardent cinephile

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[barrysarll]

That's the exact same quote I used for my first Mad Men post title. It's the slightly over-eager summary of what the show's about, but heavens it's a good line nonetheless.

[anonymous]

It was nice that we could find we are sexually compatible, too.

[anonymous]

ゆうこりんはえっち？

[strange_powers]

I love Mad Men too - the good news you're soon to discover is that it somehow improves as it goes along. As much as I admire US television at the moment - and god knows I watch an awful lot of it - Mad Men does something different to all of the other great shows. With The Wire it's the minutiae of a failing society, with The Sopranos it's family politics, with Lost it's the joy of the puzzle. But Mad Men feels like the Great American Novel brought to the screen, like Mailer and Salinger, the outer and inner lives of the inhabitants of a brutal and comfortable world.

That it's beautiful to look at and immaculately performed is the icing on the cake: I'm already itchy about the imminent arrival of Season 3.

[darkmarcpi]

I am currently about five episides into the DVD and finding it similarly fascinating.

It does make me want to turn up to work in a sharp suit and skinny tie and light up and smoke through meetings. Though our secretary is about 60 so I don't think I'll be trying anything on with her.