the greatest show on earth

catching up on the third season finale of the landmark 60's-era manet-imbued social opera mad men becuz my memory is fuzzy and the fourth season premieres sunday. i've never seen a more immaculate program about the american family and the american workplace, so tailored to beauty and designed to style that it seems like it was carved out by some postmodern renaissance man. how deep and existential it shows that our country has finally gotten and how consistent the creation of amazing cable television not exclusively inside of the hbo/showtime hemisphere is. i cannot wait to see what's happened to don draper and the rest of the sterling-cooper gang. may their martinis never cease.