I don't know if anyone is watching the new Dallas on TNT. I'm about halfway through the episodes that aired over the winter season, and while the show does bring in a lot of history, it ignores a lot of stuff that could make for interesting drama. For instance, JR's second wife Calli shows up at his funeral, and there is no drama surrounding it. She took off with JR's illegitimate oldest child and JR's youngest (who she had just given birth to) vowing to keep that child away from JR, and she just shows up at a funeral and no fuss is made of it. Furthermore, nothing is said about either of those two other sons in JR's will.

I think that they just ignored a lot of the backstory for the funeral eps because it would take too long to explain to the new watchers. But, the old school watchers know and appreciate the drama.

So, Mad Men. That was a lot of strangeness.

I liked Ken tap dancing.

Ken tapdancing was great. I shudder to think how his foot is going to feel after the drugs wear off.

Yeah, that'll be bad.

John Hodgman had a lot to say about Mad Men on Twitter last night:

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That was an odd ep, but very enjoyable. Not sure the flashbacks really worked.

I haven't liked any of the flashbacks this season. Waste of time afaic. But the ep as a whole was more fun that Mad Men has been in a while. As well as extremely weird.

The first thing I said about 5 minutes or so in was: "oh great, one of those wacky Tony Sopranos episodes. Let's hope Don isn't in a coma."

I get what they were doing, but I was pretty alienated from most of the episode, despite some cute aspects here and there. And I just don't know what to say about the fake maid/thief shit. I mean really.

Finally saw last night's Mad Men.

Did you notice they referenced: Alice in Wonderland, The Prisoner and Rosemary's Baby (the book Sally was reading).

Thought the bit with Ida was very tense and scary. Had an off-kilter WTF element.

It definitely had a bit of a Twin Peaks vibe. Particularly that moment when Cutler gave Peggy the come-hither finger.

I don't know if Jon Hamm gets enough credit for his performance because he's letting all the cracks show. Particularly in that extended, uncomfortable scene with Sylvia in the elevator. So much going on in his face.

Cutler's hilarious. It's like having an extra, slightly weirder Roger around.

Stan is also hilarious.

The scene where Sylvia told Don to stop stalking her was excellent. She's more interesting breaking up with him and leaving him than she was with him.

Loved Sally in this ep; nice change after a season's worth of teen brattiness.

Ultimate High Point goes for Ken's tap-dance, though. And the look on Dawn's face.

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