Mad Men - something I'm loving on

I admit, I don't often blog too much about my daily goings on - it's just too boring when I start writing about it (Get up, drive to work, walk to work from where I have to park - 10 minutes away from where work IS, work, lunch, walk back to the parking lot, deal with d-bag drivers on the road, dinner, lounge/internets/tv, sleep, rinse, repeat) but every so often I'd like to mix things up and discuss something I've been loving on. And currently, that thing is the show Mad Men.
Right from the get go, the design of the title sequence is so compelling - this mixture of modern, homage to Saul Bass' title sequence style, the jazzy/depressing music - I'm hooked.

The main character of the show is Don Draper, played by Jon Hamm. He looks EXACTLY as if he was plucked from that time period (60's). Everything he does, I completely believe - and also completely distrust. He's a high level ad man with a seemingly perfect life - beautiful wife (a ringer for Grace Kelly!), 2 kids, but he's got a past he has hidden from everyone, and cheats on his wife incessently. We all got problems, right? Even the perfect people from the ads in the 60's do too. Sopranos did it well, of course, but I am much more interested in this world - maybe it's because I work at an advertising agency?

And the SETS and the COSTUMES and the, well, EVERYTHING! Attention to detail, all the props, just...breathtakingly good. I can't believe this world existed just a short 48 years ago. Yeah, that's a lifetime. But it's a lifetime that I never got a chance to see.

On a sidenote...

...yeah. Wow. What a knockout. Go Christina Hendricks. I loved you in Firefly, and I'll love you in this.

I'm sure many other people are much more eloquent about their analysis of Mad Men, but I'll just be much more simple about it - one of the best things on TV right now. Their second season just started this past Sunday, and I'm almost done with the first. Can't wait to see what happens...