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Weird times too with the so-called new Mad Men episode. 10 o'clock till 11:05???

Past experience tells me when they got a weird timeframe like that, I better record the show immediately after or I might just get amputated during a pivotal bit of wrapping-up dialogue.
 
A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Gave that a rewatch. Up there with the most over-rated films for me. Currently #77 all time at imdb.

My rating: 4.4 out of 10.

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Just going to say about Mad Men: it is very nice to watch something so well written in the way that Mad Men is well written.

I watch a number of shows and obviously they all have something about them that appeals to me. A big thing these days is cramming stuff in. Shameless is like that. Even Downton Abbey. Nurse Jackie. Make sure a whole bunch is going on with everybody all the time.

Not meaning that as a jab. It is a very viable TV strategy and it's easy to go wrong.

Better Call Saul is a different thing. The Knick is a different thing again. I miss Boardwalk Empire.

But Mad Men ---> I was missing it and I didn't even realize. It is definitely its own very good thing.
 
At some point I will watch the whole of Mad Men again. I don't think I would actually binge on it, but I need to see the whole thing more-or-less continuously without these huge gaps between seasons.

Nothing can measure up to the first season for me, but the question is to what extent things dipped in those middle seasons. Not sure. The second viewing is all-important.

I'll probably do that fairly soon actually. The thing started in 2007. Hard to believe.