Thank you.

Matthew Weiner wrote some of the best of the "Sopranos" scripts and, I think, thus carries forward some of that series "voice" (which was his as much as David Chase's and Terence Winter's and other writers on the show) forward into "Mad Men." I have the highest regard for both shows (warts and all, with "The Sopranos" and its weakish final seasons and endings.)

One more borrow on "Mad Men" I forgot from "The Sopranos" playbook:

"The Sopranos" quoted quite a bit from modern literature ("Slouching Towards Bethlehem," that Be-Bop poem that opened one season in narration, etc), and now "Mad Men" Season Two opens with a narrative poetry reading by Don Draper at episode's end.

Both shows are certainly literate in an "English lit major" kind of referential way.

P.S. Who was Don mailing that book of poetry TO? And wasn't that a great "fake 50's matte shot" of his neighborhood at night as he walked to the mailbox?