Mad Men

[The DaveR]

The first episode was terrific. Stylish, time-warpish, funny, free of irony and very entertaining. It hasn't maintained that level of quality and there are a number of potentially craptastic developments IMO.

In particular (semi-spoilers if you haven't watched through Ep 10) the whole fake identity thing seems likely to suck balls. The wife's psychological state managed to go from mildly interesting to deadeningly boring inside of maybe 20 minutes of screen time. The male junior agency staff haven't developed at all. And, my God, the beatniks. Could they possibly have been more 2-dimensional? I think I'm about 2 episodes away from giving up.

What are people's thoughts about how the series is developing?