“Mad Men” Creator: New Season Will Piss People Off
by Maureen Ryan
Don Draper, according to his spurned ex Faye, “only likes the beginnings of things.” Is the show’s audience in the same camp?
Well, not quite. Devotees of the show tend to be in raving-fan mode during the last third of each season, but “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner has detected a pattern in how seasons of his show are received. Audiences usually like the season premiere — and they’re even more primed to enjoy the Season 5 premiere, given how long they had to wait for it. But in his experience of past seasons, they start carping around the time of the second episode.
“They get irritated and ornery and talk about how crappy it is,” he told HuffPost TV with a laugh.
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