Update

First - MAD MEN IS BACK! I always kind of forget, because it's off the air for so long, how much I love this show. I mean, obviously I'm always like, "Oh, Mad Men, I love that show." But I never really get it until it comes back and I realize it's filled a void, you know?

I also apparently forgot which channel number AMC was, lol, because I missed the first five minutes as I frantically flipped through the channels trying to find it. (And then I was extra annoyed because they showed a one-hour preview for some other show after it instead of the usual encore, which meant I had to stay up way late in order to catch the beginning of the encore.)

In other TV news, I finally finished Rome. I don't know if it was me or the quality of the show, but I found myself getting bored a little more often in season 2 than in season 1. I liked it, but in a very detached way, such that I really didn't care about any of the characters. I mean, a LOT of people die in season 2, and I can't think of a single one that made me do more than shrug. (And it's not the "history is a spoiler" issue - I knew Caesar was going to die, and it still worked.)

I've decided to skip over Lost and Terminator for the time being (the former because I just don't have the mental energy right now, and the latter because I want to watch at least a couple of the movies first), and I watched series 1 of The Office (UK). It's weird how there's this sense of deja vu (especially in the first episode, which was almost identical), even though I know the UK version came first. I don't think I have an opinion yet on which is better, though at the moment I lean toward the US version, both because I saw it first and thus it is the standard to which the other is compared, and because I can identify with it better. Sometimes British jokes go over my head. :(