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AMC Gives Season Four To MAD MEN!!
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It looks like “Mad Men” will get at least a little closer to the hippie era next summer.
AMC has ordered a fourth season of its period ad-biz drama. Creator/showrunner Matthew Weiner signed to continue with a fourth season, were one greenlit, earlier this year.
The series won the Emmy for outstanding drama last year and is widely expected to win again Sept. 20.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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doesn't get very good ratings. i guess they are good for a cable station?
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Right now. The Wire is the best of all time.
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Agreed... The Wire kicked all kinds of ass, a shame it did not get the Emmy recognition it deserved IMO.
Mad Men season 4 is sweet news too. I am glad that this show has found its audience. -
... and I still like Rescue Me and Breaking Bad better, but a 4th season is certainly welcome.
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I dont really get any excitement from it, I mean its enjoyable enough, but for me shows like Breaking Bad are just on a whole other level.
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season 3 has been a yawn fest. Hope they ramp it up soon
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Christina Hendricks and January Jones (which sounds like the name of a Bond girl, for chrissakes). I will continue to watch just for them. I'm just now getting into the show and it's great stuff, especially the writing. I'd expect this to get to 100 episodes.
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I hope it doesnt degenerate into Thirtysomething. But talk about self obsessed pricks....this show is full of them. And while January Jones is a mega babe her character is a bit of a cunt.
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but it is still a money maker for AMC. The whole show is product placement. I am sure they get paid every time the word Pepsi is uttered. Same goes for pampers, London Fog etc. When Joan was rattling off Pete and Ken's account lists you could practically hear the cash registers ringing.
Fortunately Wiener has been able to weld art and commerce together pretty seamlessly. On any other show that much product placement would seem garish. On Mad Men it just adds authenticity. -
You get the award for lamest excuse for a Talkback comment of the evening!
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That's the conclusion I've honestly come to. It was so isnanely fucking good they just all agreed to not even nominate it for anything, because they knew it would have to win every single award, every single year, and that is just no fun. So they just didn't and allowed all the other shows to get some credit. Mad Men is undoubtedly the best show on tv right now, and its a few inches away from being as good as The Wire, which allows it to still be nominated and be in contention with other shows, but clearly dominates unfairly still. It's just that it's not THE GREATEST show of all time, so it gets nominated. I don't see any other explanation for the lack of recognition The Wire received. Except from the Peabody Awards I think. Because the Peabodies are just motherfuckin gangster.
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You are and aren't right. The Sopranos really is the most over rated show ever. I've been watching it on Netflix all summer, and am up to the end of the fourth season, and a serious part of me just doesn't care to go on. How is it that a show like The Wire was on television at the same time as The Sopranos, and yet The Sopranos was hailed as basically being the best show on television and dominated pop culture, magazine covers, everything for 6 years? It's good, don't get me wrong, most of the time, but its the same shit over and over and over again. And it's never, ever riveting or exciting. It's just interesting. Tony fucks a whore, whore goes crazy, they rob some shit, they shake some people down, some people shake them down, Carmella gets pissed, maybe someone gets whacked at the end of an episode. That's the entire series. So you are right on that. However, I don't think Mad Men is in the same boat. I find it genuinely fascinating and riveting. The first two seasons are basically perfect IMO. Subtle and beautiful. The first two episodes of this season weren't up to par, but this week was one of the best of the entire series. To say this show doesn't deserve a fourth season compared to most of the other shows grinding out garbage year after year is preposterous.
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How long have you fucktards been doing this and you still can't figure out the html code to embed images? Fucking pathetic.
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two words: Pine Barrens.
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But agree I don't get much excitement from it. The Sopranos and The Wire had the ability to shock and thrill, I've not really got that from Mad Men yet. I get that it's not really about that, but for me it stops the show becoming an all-time favourite.
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but obviously not for everyone.The total audience has risen to something like 3 million, I believe, but consider top cable shows on networks like USA get 7-8 million, more than double.
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Excellent TV show, agree about The Wire too. They're like visual novels, demanding your rapt attention.
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i'll be one of the few voices in this talkback that is overjoyed with this news. as of right now, mad men is the best scripted hour-long on TV. when Big Love comes back, that may change. oh, and i have never watched breaking bad, but am looking forward to catching up on the first two seasons before it comes back next in early 2010.
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that he only wanted to do five seasons and end the show at the end of the 1960s? i thought i remembered reading that once, possibly on AICN. anyone know?
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Keep'em coming. Best show on television.
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USA Today interview, Weiner doesn't have a specific series end date in mind but he wants to see Don and Betty in 1972. I'm continuing a post from the last episode talkback and would love to see Draper and Co. in '72. John Hamm with side burns, maybe a 70's moustache and January Jones looking the same from "We Are Marshall." Roger would have to be dead by '72, I doubt he would quit smoking, eating right and start jogging.
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Great acting/design, yes. But utterly predictable TV plots. Ooo, a closeted gay! And a Jew! And look, there's sexism! And smoking! But it all looks so cooooool...
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on more than half of TV watchers. I swear, some of the scenes that they put back-to-back and the juxtapositions created are the most thought-provoking and character-revealing in a long, long time.
It's not as realistic or shrewdly observed as The Wire but as for populating the world of the 60s with characters that aren't hippy or Nixonland stereotypes it's right up there.
The best part is how they really allow the characters to build and develop over a season or seasons. They are real people living through a period of extreme change in the society around them and struggling to come to grips with it. For all its many splendors the characters in The Wire never really changed or grew before your eyes. Not like Don Draper and Peggy Olson, or any of them.
Easily the best written show on TV right now...though I'm only just starting on Breaking Bad season 1 so who knows? -
I'm pretty sure the subtleties of the show are lost on more than half of these talkbackers, too. My favorite has to be the genius who said it's the most overrated show since The Soprano's. The most nuanced show since the Soprano's, maybe, but compared to the other stuff on TV now this is about as overrated as Shakespeare or Citizen Kane...
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a little nudity and some cursing would take this show into a whole other realm...way to go, HBO, when you passed on Mad Men
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I think what makes Mad Men so interesting is simply the way that it doesn't play to the rules, although it reflects a particular period in History. Who else envisaged when they tuned into this weeks episode that they'd witness Roger Sterling minstrelling it up?
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remember winer said every season is 2 year jump. i wonder why it's still 63? what happened?
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I think the first two seasons were excellent, but this season just seems to be lacking so far. Probably because I'm sick of January Jones's terrible acting. Well that and the fact that Don Draper isn't an enigma anymore.
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is good news
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Crow3771 is right. the wire was the best fucking thing that has ever come out the television industry EVER and yet so few people have any knowledge of it and it's greatness. This makes me want to start a charity who's goal is to through TWire DVDs from rooftops to the masses. Anyone
who is aware of CS-fucking-I but not the wire is someone I wana punch in their stupid fucking face. The Wire was to good for Emmys instead it should have been nominated for fucking Oscars(I know oscars are for movies douchebags,I just know one of you out there will call me on that). God I love HBO the only non uncensored lame ass regular netowork tv is Lost. although I guess Mad Men is considered censored they can't swear(hell, shit and ass aren't swear words) however the shows genius's reek of creative freedom -
Lost is the only show on network tv that I watch. it is also fucking awesome 77% of the time
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Another year of Bridget Regan hotness.
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Because The Wire had too many Black folks on it to get official recognition for being the great show it really was. Who says Hollywood isn't racist? There's nothing worse than a self-righteous Liberal who is secretly a racist muthafucka!
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Win one for good television!
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Wait so if you're not "excited" by something, then it's not good? That is fucking weird.
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WATCH MAD MEN YOU TROGLODYTES!
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I'm not ready to call it the best but it's certainly up there. Nobody ... I repeat ... nobody ... fucks with Don Draper.
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