“I’ve always known when a TV series is starting to bite with me — I begin consciously organising my life around its scheduling.
“It’s happened with a string of US-made drama series that shame our home-grown television, including The Wire and The Sopranos. So it’s proved with Mad Men, an Emmy-award-winning show, made for cable — or at least, up until the halfway mark of each season.”
To read the rest of Will Self’s Evening Standard column, go here.