Mad Men and Crotchety Bloggers (who wanna have all the fun by themselves?)
The Mad Men cover on this past Sunday's NY Times Magazine was unexpected certainly welcome, at least by me, if not by this New York Magazine Vulture blog post, which goes a little like this:
Alex Witchel's cover story doesn't do that much to get us excited, by the way. As usual with coverage of Mad Men, the article focuses heavily on the show's fetishistic attention to period detail (down to rejecting one actress due to collagen in her lips), HBO's chumpitude in rejecting the series, and creator Matthew Weiner's bristly genius.
But the headline on the blog post got me, it reads, "Crap, Now Everyone Has to Start Watching ‘Mad Men’."
I don't get this. Why can't everyone be in on the fun? Why are we not welcoming everyone to this great piece of televised entertainment, especially when there's not much else out there worthy of my gushing praise (well, not much that isn't connected to Russell Davies, anyway) and certainly we'll get more eps of the show if it becomes the hit AMC wants it to be.
Then there's more:
But thanks to the stupid New York Times Magazine, we can't put it off any longer. Now we have to (sigh) go buy the DVDs of season one when they come out on July 1, and (sigh) sit down in front of our TV, and (long sigh) watch all thirteen hours< of it. And then we have to watch the new season too! We're sure it'll be great, but jeez, that's a lot of hours.
Suck it up, dude. Thirteen hours straight on your ass watching TV? I can do that in my sleep. In fact, I have. and the other thing is you guys will probably get the DVD set for free, whereas those of us who write less publicized blogs will probably have to go out on July 1 and buy it ourselves, which sucks because I never get the free stuff I want, just the free stuff everyone else doesn't want.
In the media whoring landscape, I certainly don't rank as high as the NYT or NYM.
And you can send me that DVD set, I'll even let you watch it through once first. C'mon, you'll probably be selling it on Craigslist once your big time journo job goes south and you need the money for crack food.
