Is it as good as every television critic in America would have me believe?

Yeah, the critics have been raving. I haven't watched any of it yet, but I've had the pilot downloaded for a while.

Ahem...

Ended up watching it tonight.

Didn't love it, but it did impress me. Very sharp, and a lot of good work by a few "I know I've seen him/her in something" unknowns.

I'll be catching up with the rest if I have the time.

Ok, this is amazing that the best show currently on television has not gotten any more responses.

Maybe the show's setting is too "old" for most posters on this forum, but the concepts it deals with such as sexism and conformity are as modern as any show set in the present.

A fantastic show that is like a mini-movie every week. Will try and do real review once the season is over.

I've never heard of the show.

On AMC Thursdays 10pm est..

http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0804503/

If you have On-Demand they have all the episodes. That is how I got hooked.

I didn't expect this, but I am completely and totally hooked on this series. I've watched six episodes so far and cannot stop watching. It's massively addicting, the production values are some of the best on television, the acting is uniformly excellent and the storylines are incredibly intriguing. It definitely lives up to the hype and then some. It's the best new drama I've gotten into since "In Treatment" earlier this year, and one of the best shows on television period. I can't wait to see where it goes and highly recommend it to other members here.

Almost a year later and, after blindly buying the beautiful if inconvenient Zippo box, I can answer the above question:

Oh, lord, yes.

I really have to check the show out. I only watched one or two episodes after Breaking Bad

This is something right up my alley. Have to check it out too.

I love the look and feel to it...

Finally got caught up with Weeds so I'll be starting this soon.

i've only heard reviews...looks pretty good though

What did they do to get so much press this past week? They must have the best PR people ever!

They got over a dozen emmy nominations just before the premiere of their second season. There's not much going on in the summer in TV industry news so it filled a vacuum.

I'm glad. It deserves all the attention it can get. And the season premiere was amazing.

I blind-bought the Blu-ray and at this point... it's interesting. The show's multi-character focus bugs me a little, since there are certain characters I like more than others. I can't really see the storyline stretching for a long period of time, and one of the episodes I've seen (3) seemed pretty weak. That said, the acting's stellar and there really have been moments that were pretty amazing for television.

Each season is going to have 2 or 3 years gap in between (in the show, not real life) so that will help with storyline freshness.

So has Kennedy been shot yet or not???

whos that red head with the big knockers?
I think Ive seen her in some other show

Christina Hendricks. You probably saw her on Firefly.

I remember now she was the one who tried to con Mal with the fake marriage