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Inside Baseball?
by gammagirl

Do your friends and relatives watch this show? Do they know about it? I am stunned that the many people who are fairly sophisticated never heard of it. I first heard about it and didn't think it would interest me. I watched it in the middle of Season 2 after hearing about it on NPRs "Talk of the Nation".

It seems like the only people who watch it are media insiders. My friends who do know about think it is only about sexual harassment. That's the image from the first season. Older people tell me 'who cares'?

Re: Inside Baseball?
by The Sound of One Man Laughing

I found out about it from Weiner's appearance on Fresh Air, and read what I could until the S1 DVD came out. I have a friend at work who taped S2 for me to watch, and after a few eps of S3, she actually started watching it herself.

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But I haven't been able to interest anyone else, including the wife, who watches it but isn't too crazy about it.

Re: Inside Baseball?
by tjcerveza

I first heard about it on the Morning Talk Radio Show Bob & Tom. They raved about it, so I got Season 1 on Netflix. Got Hooked.

It is not advertised much, and AMC does not offer great lead-ins or good promo platforms.

Speaking of Baseball, "Let's Go Yankees!"

Re: Inside Baseball?
by thomas144
I think everybody I know watches Mad Men. I've been watching it since the first episode. I forget how I first heard about it, but we were huge fans of the Sopranos, so I imagine we heard something about a new show by one of the directors of the Sopranos, but I really don't remember.
Re: Inside Baseball?
by ruthhmiller
We watched it from the first episode. Mr. Ruthh picked up somebody talking about it and we put it on and were hooked. then my 25 year old daughter calls. Mom you've got to see this new show. MadMen? I say. Yeah. So we discuss it Mondays when she calls me during her lunch break at work.
Re: Inside Baseball?
by paulasonoma
None of my friends watch this show and I have found this to be so frustrating. I have tried to talk them into it, to no avail. I have no one with which to analyze on Monday mornings, so I am very thankful for The Fray.
Re: Inside Baseball?
by jbcorny
mad men? isn't that the show started by banana republic to promote their clothing line?
Re: Inside Baseball?
by ehbuchan

I work in a team of eight people.

I am the only anglophone, with everyone else speaking French and most work being performed in French.

So.... I'm on my own with MM, Coronation Street, Trailer Park Boys, 30Rock, Glee, Little Mosque on the Prairie, and Ugly Betty.

On the other hand, everyone is familiar with How to Look Good Naked.

Re: Inside Baseball?
by Rifka
Where can you watch the show "Little Mosque on the Prarie" ? It sounds like fun!
Re: Inside Baseball?
by Bessborough
Rifka, "Little Mosque" is a Canadian t.v. series on the CBC.
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