I don’t watch much TV. (And, no, it’s not because I feel snobby and superior or that TV is beneath me. I’m sure the shows you love are wonderful, really. I’m just hoping to reduce the percentage of my waking life spent staring at screens, not increase it.) In the past 10 years, I’ve really only glommed on to two programs: Arrested Development (which I hope no crabwalk.com reader needs to be told is the greatest use of moving-picture technology in recorded human history) and, this fall, Mad Men.

Mad Men, for those unaware, is a funny drama set in the offices of a Manhattan advertising firm in 1960. It’s fundamentally about the transition from the button-down ’50s to the revolutionary ’60s. That and great period atmosphere. And smoking, and three-martini lunches. The actors are all-around fabulous, and in great Eisenhower-era clothes. (The show also features January Jones, who may well be the most beautiful woman I’m not currently dating. And ladies, you get plenty of eye candy too, primarily in the form of hunky leading man Jon Hamm.)

Anyway, I mention all this because (a) reruns of the first season start in mid-January on AMC, (b) there will be a DVD, probably around the same time, and (c) Rich Sommer, the actor who plays the most likable of the testosterone-laden office boys (and lighting the cigarette above), has a blog.

18 December 2007

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