Might As Well Cancel Your Plans For Sunday

Because anyone who knows anything will be watching the Season 3 premiere of Mad Men on AMC. In case you've been living in a cave for the past few years and haven't heard of Mad Men (a surprisingly high number of people haven't) then you have no idea what you're missing. The show is centered around the Manhattan ad agency Sterling Cooper in the early 1960's. It follows the ups and downs of the lives of the executives working there, particularly Don Draper, a junior partner in the company. Don, who isn't exacly everything he seems to be, lives the quinnessential male existence of the time -- drinking heavily, smoking constantly, and sleeping around with some of the most gorgeous women in New York City.

But what makes the show amazing is all the darkness. It's not so much what the characters do, be it cheating on their wives or drinking themselves into oblivion, but those moments when they are left alone with their demons. I've seen it all over the place that silence is the most telling part of the show, because that's when you can see the most about the characters. That time in American history is so often portrayed as perfect, suburbian and idyllic, but watching Mad Men is like peeling back the layers and seeing what was underneath all that. It's like peeking in on a perfect family and seeing their rough edges.

And it doesn't hurt that the cast is amazing, the writing is phenomenal, the costumes are killer, and that Don Draper is a total, tortured stud, and the fact that he lies, drinks, smokes, and cheats somehow doesn't make him any less appealing. And THAT is something in and of itself.