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AMC announced today that its great and much-praised original series, Mad Men, is returning for its second season on Sunday, July 27 at 9 p.m. Central. No word on what happens or where the second season picks up. But its premiere will be one of the big events of the new summer TV season that cable networks like AMC and TNT have transformed the former dead zone of reruns and reality shows into. You have to wonder how long the old-world broadcast networks are going to let their cable competitors steal the thunder of their big fall premieres without a fight. If this year is anything like last year, a lot of viewers are going to be remarking that all their favorite shows on television are ending just as the old-guard networks are sounding the trumpets for their "new" seasons. |
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Posted by Joyce Saenz Harris @ 1:30 PM Thu, May 29, 2008
What great news this is. I got totally hooked on "Mad Men" last summer, and on FX's "Damages" (starring Glenn Close and Rose Byrne), too.
Another return I'm eagerly awaiting is AMC's "Breaking Bad," starring Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul as unlikely partners in crime: a high-school chemistry teacher and his slacker/druggie ex-student, who hook up to make and sell high-grade crystal meth.
You can't imagine feeling sorry for a meth cook until you meet Cranston's Walter White, an Everyman workadaddy in Albuquerque. He is dying of cancer, strapped for money and scarily determined to leave his disabled teenage son and pregnant wife in decent financial shape. Walter figures he won't be around to face any legal consequences of his crimes...but he's starting to realize there are other consequences, moral and ethical ones, that he'll have to face somehow.
This is simply great TV: bleak, funny, horrifying and heartbreaking by turns. It's not for the squeamish or faint of heart, but like "Mad Men" and "Damages," "Breaking Bad" equals anything on HBO and deserves to be seen by more people.