This year, after three straight years of being handed Golden Globes in hopes that January Jones and Christina Hendricks would finally get the message and do a lesbian scene, or at least prove that Christina's luscious melons aren't themselves the products of Madison Avenue ad wizards, the run is over for AMC's Mad Men.
Show business people will tell you that being denied a Golden Globe is a humiliation second only to having your movie premiere switched from New York and Los Angeles to Sofia, Bulgaria, where it was filmed.
But that's what happened to Mad Men this year when the show's obstinate refusal to even let a nip slip or flash some ass and roll the dice on an FCC fine finally caught up to it.
John Hamm and his buddies went home defeated and empty-handed when nude kid on the block Boardwalk Empire took the Best TV Show award like candy from a baby, proving that the best way to spice up a period drama is nudity. Period.
If AMC can't figure out why HBO ruled and they drooled at the Golden Globes last night, then here it is. HBO gave us what they couldn't with Boardwalk Empire: nonstop nudity, lesbian sex scenes, and a fully frontal (and frontally full-furred) Paz de la Huerta.
Wrap it up, we'll take it.
