Grid Effect

Alright, we’re planning on writing the Mad Men recap either today or tomorrow in order to get it out of the way before Friday, and also because we might consider the finale…we don’t want to say “worst” episode of Mad Men we’ve seen, because that implies it was actually low-grade. It wasn’t. But it certainly lacked the same emotional and borderline spiritual punch that we are accustom to getting from the series.

Also, would the world series just fucking end? My God, if this becomes the first series to reach six games since 2003 because of God’s practical joke on the city of Philadelphia we might be postponing these nightly previews until next week. Which would mean our fall preview would come in November. Fuck you, baseball. And fuck you too, elections. Regardless of what happens with the series, we won’t get around to Tuesday’s preview until two weeks from today, which puts us at November 11th. That is roughly three weeks before a good chunk of television series’ go on hiatus.

I think it is safe to say, that this was poorly planned.

Onto the links.

Apparently the reason Coldplay performed three songs on Saturday’s Jon Hamm hosted SNL, wasn’t because Coldplay is a band full of self-important musicians or the writers and cast were feeling particularly lazy. Nope, its due solely to the fact that Amy Poehler is on maternity leave. Gee whiz, guys; it’s a good thing to see we’re not overreacting. Maybe Coldplay performed in place of excessive commercials (which SNL is famous for). You know, occasionally people in the public eye get too much credit for things they aren’t rightly responsible for, but typically not all that credit is unwarranted.

We will say this: Poehler does bring a lot to the table in current day SNL, but if Poehler really is adding an additional six minutes of sketches to SNL and they are completely incapable of replacing her, then maybe it is time to recalibrate what exactly they are trying to do with this show. When an average to slightly above average cast member in the history of its run is so vital to their capacity to just kill time, they might just want to cancel it altogether.

Sons of Anarchy, the FX biker gang series that we promised to watch but never did, has a fan base that  is reportedly 40% female.  The creator is attributing it to his work being “a family show at its core”. I prefer to take the Larry David approach here and say women love it because it is criminal, and women are attracted to criminals. Honestly, The Sopranos was a family show at its core, but I can guaran-fucking-tee you that about 90% of its audience watched the series to see who was the next to get “whacked”. Haha, its funny because that’s what mob guys say.

This? Is for the ladies. You can thank me later.

Speaking of Larry David, Curb Your Enthusiasm is slated for a return on an undisclosed date sometime next year. This will mark the seventh season of the now infamous HBO comedy, a season that we pleaded for an assumed we would get when David separated from his shrill, probably insufferable to live with wife. We hope he is coping with the divorce well, and that everything about it trickles down into the season with the Blacks.

And finally, if you missed this interview with Mathew Weiner and are confused about anything in the series, then I am willing to bet it will be illuminated for you somewhere in those 10,000+ words. I might just skip my recap in favor of copying and pasting whatever is in that Q&A. He also claims to aspire to be associated with Mad Men “forever”, which implies that someone, somewhere is/was assuming that he was just going to abandon a project that is not only one of the best ever made, but also his magnum opus. Would David Chase ever leave The Sopranos, or David Simon The Wire, just consider how ridiculous the notion is that Weiner would ever part ways with this series.

Potentially back with more links later.