RJD2’s “A Beautiful Mine”. Better known as the theme song to Mad Men. When I was out buying oysters on Saturday, I also dropped by Frys and picked up the Mad Men season one DVDs. I kept hearing and reading things about it being really, really good, but I sort of shrugged it off.
Then Bill Simmons was on Dave Dameshek’s podcast last week (link goes straight to an mp3 file) and they praised it for five minutes. That put it over the top for me. I watched nine episodes on Saturday. On Sunday, I woke up at 7am and finished the last four episodes before taking a nap.
And today I spent a few hours reading various articles about it. I just keep finding out things that make me smile, like the theme song being by RJD2.
Apparently the second season just started last Sunday, which was good news to me. The first episode of the second season is on Hulu (along with zero other episodes), so I just need to try and catch a re-run of the second episode sometime this week and I’ll be caught up. Avoid the spoilers, ignore those articles and definitely don’t start the first episode of the second season on Hulu. Just find a way to start from the beginning. For comparison’s sake, the other shows that I’ve plowed through in marathon fashion are the first seasons of The Wire, Dexter, and Prison Break (the weakest of the three in making my point—but the cliffhangers hooked me!).