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Why we're sick of MAD MEN | Fail For the record, we didn't start off hating this show. On paper it looked great—mid-century modernism, New York, curvy redhead. But we grew to resent it not just for the time we wasted while hoping it would pick up the pace, but ultimately for the oversaturation and excessive hype that have made the show unavoidable in popular culture. For everyone who emails us every time we take a shot at "Mad Men", wanting to know what our beef is, let us sum it up. 15.oct.2010 culture 6 comments getting comments...hide comments post a comment
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