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The shows most people consider the best shows made: The Wire (HBO) and Mad Men (*edit AMC) both seem bland at first glance... A great show can be set in any se

• jlgreco 14y ago
  Mad Men is AMC.
• chc 14y ago
  The Wire I will agree is "bland" in the sense I'm using here. And indeed, I don't think the The Wire would have been a good show to establish a network, even though it was good. That's a good example of the sort of thing I'm talking about here. I really don't mean the show is bad. I mean that shows that "make" networks tend to be obviously quirky, and this show doesn't seem to have that trait. But IMO Mad Men was actually a pretty high-concept show. It was readily identifiable even to people who weren't very familiar with it. (I say this as someone who actually didn't watch Mad Men for several years and thus was actually in that position.)
  • redwood 14y ago
    Interesting, I, like you, didn't get to Mad Men until very late since it seemed like a mundane concept. Of course I was converted by word of mouth cajoling and one episode did the trick. I guess Netflix hopes for the same kind of thing here