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Oct. 12th, 2007 @ 10:05 am wiwt
What I'm watching tonight: Friday Night Lights. If you saw the second season premiere, then like me you may have some trepidation about this season -- which is putting it very mildly for some people, I know, but I'm not going to let one potential plot misfire overshadow everything else. ... even if it's the kind of thing that by definition might come to overshadow everything else. First season began with shaking up a status quo we simply hadn't seen a season of, after all, with Jason Street's injury.

Last night:

Earl was all right, The Office dragged on waaaaay too long, but 30 Rock had some great moments. Practicology, the religion founded by the alien king living inside Stan Lee! Please let's have some callbacks to that in future episodes.

Mad Men was the TV highlight of the night, though. For the most part I would have said that the show -- created by a Sopranos writer -- uses 1960 the way The Sopranos used New Jersey: it's deeply informed by and tied to that setting, but doesn't devote any episodes to being "about" the setting. This is no Wonder Years or even China Beach -- this show has no idea it's in the past. I was curious whether an episode titled after the Nixon-Kennedy election would change that, but nope, it's still the same feel -- no knowing winks at all.

And the resolution to Pete finding out Don Draper's secret was just right.
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