After not watching The Bachelor for literally, several years, got sucked into this season featuring Jake, a hunky blonde pilot.

What a mistake.

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What with watching and devoting many blog posts to Battlestar Galactica, checking out this season of Caprica is a given, and I had high hopes for this new series.

The hope is fading, and I may reneg on that obligation.

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Mad Men first sucked me in with the promise of a smart nostalgia trip, a celebration of the “way things were,” featuring period-specific characters (office man, housewife, career girl), retro cinematography, and an obsessive attention to the objects and mannerisms of the time.

But at the end of season three, I now see the show not as celebration, but instead a condemnation. And in future seasons, I trust it goes further, ultimately explaining why the late sixties were necessary.

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Hell’s Kitchen is over, and all turned out as predicted a while back. In the last few episodes, Suzanne and Tenille were toast, then Ariel, leaving Dave and Kevin in the final two. And the “one armed bandit” took home the grand prize.

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I have to say this season of Hell’s Kitchen has been notably over the top – extremely sensational, focusing on ridiculous antics and extreme contestants, some so horrible I’m sure they were plants.

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A personal guilty pleasure is Hell’s Kitchen, an utterly ridiculous reality game show where foul-mouthed Brit Gordon Ramsay oversees seventeen craptastic chefs and selects a half-way decent one to work in one of his restaurants as a grand prize. The crew is whittled down one by one with challenges and intense dinner services.

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Oh yeah. So, the third season of Mad Men starts up August 16 and of course I’m gonna be there. As with Battlestar Galactica, iTunes is going to be my primary method of watching the show. And a season pass for season three just showed up in the iTunes Store, recently. There’s also a free feature-ette showing the ten most shocking moments from the first two seasons.

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Really great article over at the Economist about Internet television steadily moving from the computer to the living room, and scaring cable companies in the process. This internet television thing is a likely foundation for the “digital video nirvana” situation I am personally jonesing for.

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No new episodes of Mad Men so this is what we settle for. It’s amusing.

I wonder what Rachel Menken would have to say about this?

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Forget all the praises I wrote about Hulu the other day. I just fired up Hulu to check out some Battlestar Galactica and was greeted by a new, lovely greeting:

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