BLUE MAG

I don’t usually like to get that heavy handed with my recommendations (if you couldn’t tell after reading my review of “Gossip Girl”) but with the excellent news today that AMC has ordered up a second season of “Mad Men” I’d like to throw this out there: You should be watching “Mad Men.”

Set in the late 50s, it centers on Don Draper, an advertising executive with a fictitious agency. The anachronistic attitudes toward women, the non-stop smoking, the repressed family life, it’s all there in its melodramatic retro glory. The writing is top notch, the acting superb. It is a fine show and you should give it a shot. Catch up on torrent and be ready for season 2 when it comes down the pike next summer.