Mad Family Sunday

This has been coming for a while now on Mad Men, and it finally seems to be coming to a head; Don's latest affair is getting creepily serious. I mean, what is she thinking? She had Don sized up right as soon as they met, the philandering husband who's always looking for the latest conquest. Of course, she falls for his charms anyway (you could see an obvious attraction even when she was rejecting him, and really, Jon Hamm is awesome!), but now she's getting genuinely attached.

Where exactly does she see this relationship going? Don's not going to leave his wife, and even if he were, it wouldn't be for you.

January Jones was brilliant this week. In the scene where Betty finds the key to Don's secret drawer, you can read this secret pleasure on her face as she anticipates finally seeing proof of Don's affairs and the life he has when he isn't with her and the children. Instead, she finds.... Dick. One can't even imagine what she was thinking to learn her husband literally had another life before they met, or how this will affect their relationship, though the teaser did show Betty packing a suitcase. However, I've gotten used to these being horribly misleading, so that might not mean anything.

Also loved that bit between Peggy and Kinsey at the end of the show. They were totally just making things up off the top of their heads (Don was surprisingly sympathetic towards Kinsey), and then Peggy just said something brilliant. Kinsey's reaction was priceless, he just stared at Peggy, aghast by her natural abilities which he apparently hasn't noticed until that moment.

Also on television last night, Family Guy did their take on three stories by Stephen King: Stand by Me, Misery, and Shawshank Redemption. They were well done and this was a good episode; in part because it didn't have my usual problem with Family Guy which is that its just a series of random jokes that have little to nothing to do with the supposed storyline (if you want to do a sketch show, do a sketch show, don't try to mask it with a barely-there plot!). However, this episode came the same night as the latest Simpsons Treehouse of Horror (another good show on Fox last night).

Now, I don't know who's fault that is, but it seemed that Family Guy was trying to go after one of Simpsons more famous episodes of the year with their own weird, short stories. So this is either a "booo" to the Family Guy creators for being dicks by going after a show that's one of the main reasons they're on the air at all, or to the Fox Network for scheduling these shows on the same night.

In other Sunday tv news, Titan Maximum finally ditched their random jokes and managed to stay focused on jokes that didn't just pop out of left field, and Venture Bros. came back with a new season. Venture Bros. was good, but the episode was told out of sequence and organized in a way that doesn't make sense until the end (and even then you might not get it if you're not as big a geek as I am), so, I feel like I have to watch the whole thing all over again. Although, the episode was good enough I really wouldn't mind seeing it again so I guess that's alright.

In all, a good Sunday's worth of television.