Mad Men Season 3 so far..

After inhaling season one and two of this glorious series a few things  have got in the way of my watching season three, but last night there was a conflux of events, I wasn't needed at rehearsal and I had a pile of ironing to do so I broke out series three of mad men on blu ray no less.

The opening sequence of the first episode with Don in the kitchen watching his memories unfold around him was just totally exquisite and it set the bar pretty high for the rest of the episode.

As with previous seasons of Mad Men stuff happens but it happens at a glacial pace, nuance is everything.

In the first four episodes there were several stand out moments for me.

1. Pete and Trudy dancing.

2. Joan Holloway playing an accordion and singing.

3. Joan giving Peggy advice on advertising for a roomie.

4. The moment where Betty let's a complete stranger feel her bump

5. Gene letting Sally drive, plus the whole Sally/Gene grandpa/granddaughter relationship.

I can't wait to see what happens next in this series it is so beguiling.

What to do...

Well rehearsals are now broken up for the summer and that means there is time to catch up on the TV that I've missed or postponed in the last few weeks because I've been too damned tired to watch most of it. So with that in mind we've already made a bit of a start on things with Breaking Bad. It's an incredible show to watch alternating between something that is very very bleak and being laugh out loud funny if you have a sick and twisted sense of humour.

In addition to that: we series linked the Silence which was shown on the BBC a couple of weeks ago, we're determined also to catch up on Misfits series one too as we were caught out by a technological malfunction when we first tried to watch it.

The big news is tonight though: Sherlock. Written by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat its a modern day retelling of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories and quite simply put I cannot wait. Two of my favourite writers colaborating on something delicious.

There's plenty to be getting on with especially when you look to the shelf and find that my copy of Mad Men seasons one and two have arrived and I'm chomping at the bit to get to grips with Don Draper et al.

I'm also fitting in True Blood as and when as my other half turns his nose up at this. I'm still watching the West Wing when I can as whilst the other half enjoys it, he enjoys an episode now and again whilst I like to inhale discs of it.  My rewatch of American Gothic is progressing slowly too but I kind of want to savour it. I love the character Selina Kyle as much as I ever did.