Ah, assumed you'd be ahead of UK broadcast with Mad Men too, and initially wrote the comment as such, but then realised I had no firm evidence for that belief and didn't want to spoiler you just in case. It was the one where his long lost brother turns up, and Peggy thinks he's with his mistress, and I was at least five minutes ahead of the script at all times. Maybe I shall go back and watch the last ten minutes and then persevere up to this seventh episode, I think this must have been the fifth, so it's not that much time.

I watched The Wire before the acclaim had reached quite its current levels, and even then assumed that it couldn't entirely live up to them. I was wrong. If anything, I think maybe it's still under-rated in so far as I read articles about TV by people who haven't seen it yet, which really ought to be illegal.