So I bought Season One of Mad Men this week. As a person that is always reading scripts, and then quotes them in day-to-day conversation, I figured watching a show known for it’s writing would keep me entertained during Spring Break. Nope. I’m still on Disc 1, Episode 3, and I’m bored to hell. I like the costumes and the satirical dialogue, but come’on! More… I don’t know, Terminators, or something! Throw some twists in there! Geesh.

I pretty much dived in to this series blindly (reminiscent of when I tried to start watching Lost, based on the false pretense that there would be a hobbit and a shapeshifting sorcerer of a fight to the death tourney in the cast)*. Though, there was one thing that I should have looked in to further concerning Mad Men. It took me by surprise when I first opened the tri-fold DVD boxset- Vincent Kartheiser acts in it! Now, this pains me. I literally grimaced at his photo. At first I thought it was Wil Wheaton, but I realized that this wasn’t circa 1985, and I doubt Wil looks like that anymore. It dawned on me that it was the guy from Alaska, aka the guy who took down my favorite show back in 2003, Angel.

Vincent Karthieser is just one of the (very few) actors on my list of “Will Never Watch Anything Starring ____”. I have nothing personal against the guy, I just don’t like watching him act. Another actor is Michelle Trachtenberg. Mainly, she’s just on there for the same reason the other guy is, she single-handedly ruined Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and I’m still pissed about it. I admit, when I was eleven I did go around the neighborhood with a black composition tablet, “spying” on people after I saw Harriet the Spy, but that amount of awesome in a movie can only take an actress so far. Anyway, I heard she’s now acting on Gossip Girl, so I guess my one person boycott didn’t do anything.

I liken my list of deal breakers to the way some people just don’t like U2… or Bon Jovi. I mean, you can have your semi-hit from the 1980’s be the theme song for a kickass show on the Discovery Channel about crabbing on the Bering Sea, but you’ll still suck (you and your mullet). Also, someone could have a whole South Park episode dedicated to how big a piece of feces they are, but they’ll still be a piece of shit at the end. It’s like that.

This whole “deal breakers” thing stems from a conversation I had with a friend. She asked me about my deal breakers when dating. Now, I’ve been single for a while, so I have no deal breakers at the moment (I’m just verging on sad and desperate at this point), so I just turned this around to something I can actually relate it to- pop culture.

*- I have no idea when, or if, they started filming Lost Season 6 yet, but I swear I’m not resting until I’m interning that set. What’s the point of going to film school in Honolulu if I can’t intern on the Lost set?! Year Goal 2009!