It was. Although, they are dressing her much like they've been dressing Helen on Primeval.

I really love the female ATF agent.

Haven't watched last night's yet (shocker), but I do like the show. Katy Segall is fucking amazing in this show. The female ATF agent is Ally Walker. She used to star in a show called Profiler, which was awesome. The show ended, and you didn't see much of her. In the last month or so, she's been on this show, a guest spot on Boston Legal, and I saw her in something else. the ATF agent is unlike anything else I've seen her do. And brown hair!

I do have to watch SOA with a little bit of hand-waving, especially with the Cherry/Rita character. Free pass from prison because she threatens/whines that she'll rat if Jacks doesn't let her out? No fallback on Unser for that?

Still, I dig the moral conflictyness of the show, and the writing ain't bad neither.

Damages promo - new season starts January 7th.

For the truly hardcore, a review of the fonts used in Mad Men, and their historic accuracy (or not).

Wow. . . that shows a great deal of ummm, focus.

Wow. . . that shows a great deal of ummm, focus.

I think he's a font designer and is just turning his expertise toward the show.

I think he's a font designer and is just turning his expertise toward the show.

I appreciate that the show goes to such lengths to procure the era-appropriate props and pieces. For some things, however, it's close to impossible, so they're doing what they can, no doubt within certain budget constraints, to emulate the look of the period. As Lewis pointed out to me, having taken graphics courses, all of the fonts in that time period would have been hand-drawn/set, so yeah, a lot of our modern fonts that are meant to mimic the old ones are going to have differences a professional will be able to catch, but can you imagine what it would cost to hand set something that's going to be on screen for a handful of seconds?

And yet, he criticizes the vintage pieces that are used.

I mean, it was interesting to read the perspective of a professional, but the whole post had this air of "Well, if I was in charge..."

Looks like Mad Men dvds aren't coming out 'til July of '09.

Looks like Mad Men dvds aren't coming out 'til July of '09.

Well, it takes time to design something equally as cool as the lighter dvd case.