Y MIENTRAS el de los subtítulos anda tecleando como loco para que esta noche se pueda ver en España el primer capítulo de la sexta temporada de Mad Men, que se estrenó anoche en EEUU, Walter Dellinger nos explica por qué la gente seria sigue la serie:

As I await the premiere of the opening episode of Season Six, I’m wondering what is it that leads supposedly serious people to spend the midnight hours on Sundays discussing thoughts about “Mad Men”? Some skeptical friends question the seriousness of giving any thought to that which is “only” or “merely” or “just” television. But a case can be made that multi-episode, multi-season serial television is the great art form of our time.

What we have learned from “The Sopranos,” “The Wire,” “Friday Night Lights,” and now “Mad Men,”is that the subtlety and nuance made possible by fifty or seventy hours of a running drama exceeds that of any of the other dramatic arts. Long form television has arrived. As Alan Sepinwall says in his insightful book, “The Revolution Was Televised,” “We’d been going home with television every night for years, but suddenly we had reason to respect it in the morning.”

And so is with “Mad Men.”

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