The Best Television Shows of 2008

The best TV series of the 2008 season was also the best of the 2007 season – Mad Men. I thought that the sophomore season of Mad Men couldn’t be as good as the first – but how wrong I was! In the second season of the show, Don (John Hamm) and Betty’s (January Jones) marriage is on the rocks, onetime secretary Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) is now a copywriter in charge of (shock!!!) men and homosexual Salvatore (Bryan Batt) and wife are now seemingly a happily married couple. I can’t think of another television series with a storyline that’s more intertwined, complex and fulfilling on TV today than that of Mad Men.

Continue reading this column on the best TV series of the 2008 season.

 

By Bert Ehrmann
1/2/2009