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Do we still prefer Heroes?

By ariel in Uncategorized, Entertainment, NBC, Heroes, TV, Comics, pop culture, media, America, Weeds, season premiere, writers' strike, Dexter, New Years, Medium, AMC, Hiro, Nakamura, Mad Men, Volume 3 on September 23 2008

Heroes Are Back, the Petrellis with them

As expected, Heroes‘ season premiere (Heroes Volume 3) picked up from where it stopped. But the show has been away for so long that I’m not sure it’s relevant anymore. Before the writers’ strike, Heroes was one of the main reasons to watch prime time TV. When NBC stopped airing the show we had to find other things to watch instead, and we found. Medium, Dexter, Weeds, Mad Men and a few more showed that good TV can be done even without Hiro Nakamura.
Heroes is still a decent and watchable show, and I was pleased that last night’s episode was more eventful then the last 10 episodes of the first season together, but I would lose the ridiculous countdown-to-the-event show. It’s not New Years.

Mad Men AMC's new old thing

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Mad Men 2nd Season Premieres Slowly

By ariel in Uncategorized, Entertainment, Advertising, TV, pop culture, media, America, Football, Mad, Men, AMC, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, Matthew Weiner on July 28 2008

Jon Hamm is Don Draper in MAD MENWhenever your spouse starts a sentence with: “This may not be a big deal for you, but….” you will pay attention. So when my dear wife told me on Friday night that “This may not be a big deal for you” I was listening, and then came the relieving second half: “But I really want to watch Mad Men’s season premiere on Sunday.” So we watched it.
Mad Men is a good show, about the advertising world in the early 60’s. We watched the entire first season over one especially boring weekend On Demand. This is the best way to get addicted to a series. After 10 episodes, you got to know the characters and the plot so good, that you feel as if you were a part of the story. Anyway, addicted or not, unfortunately, it seems that Mad Men is going in the same path as many other promising shows, and turning itself into a slow Nothing-is-really-happening-here soap opera. It’s a little disappointing, but hey, we will only follow the show until the Football season begins!