--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@...> wrote: > > FYI, actually I have talked to people who watched the > show and didn't like it for that reason. Those discussions > took place on forums particular to home theater and TV > viewing. It's a great show, well done but not everyone's > cuppa tea as no TV program will ever be that.
Just FYI, I managed to watch the first few seasons, but this year -- what with the travel and all, not to mention having more fun things to do either at home in Leiden or here in Paris -- I've just not bothered with it. I've had to become more discriminating about the TV shows I choose to invest my time in, because there is so much less time available to invest. :-) I kinda followed "Mad Men" for a while the same way one follows a soap opera -- as a "guilty pleasure." >From Day One I found the characters and the issues they dealt with kinda boring and mundane, and very difficult to identify with. I continued to watch it almost out of habit -- *exactly* the way one does with a soap opera that one has developed a guilty pleasure Jones for. You tune in hoping something will actually *happen* in this week's episode, only to be disappointed. Between Danish TV and much better shows (IMO, of course) on American TV, I simply haven't felt even the desire to watch "Mad Men" this season. At one point I even realized why: If they'd killed off ANY of the characters, I wouldn't have cared.
