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By James Poniewozik | @poniewozik | January 27, 2009 | +

Because it is more interesting to write about things people are saying about Trust Me than it is to write about Trust Me itself, I direct you to costar Eric McCormack’s not-entirely-unjustified complaint that it’s not really fair to compare the show (as I did myself) with Mad Men. In the New York Times: 

Q. What about “Mad Men”? Obviously there are going to be comparisons.

MR. MCCORMACK Here’s the thing. I got these statistics because I asked for them. There are right now 39 …

MR. CAVANAGH I thought you weren’t going to be a stat man. It’s 37, I think.

MR. MCCORMACK … 37 crime shows on the air, there’s 17 law shows and 19 medical shows. There have been three advertising shows in history.

MR. CAVANAGH (humming) While you do that, I just want to do building music.

MR. MCCORMACK Don’t do building music. There was “Bewitched,” there was “Thirtysomething” and then there is “Mad Men” on AMC. You’ve seen the pilot so you know they’re totally different shows. They might as well be a medical show versus a law show.

Oh, Mr. McCormack. Those who forget Bosom Buddies are doomed to repeat it.

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  • erichvandussen

    He’s really not wrong, though. Mad Men and Trust Me share a workplace setting, but that’s it. One is a social study in sex and interpersonal relationships of the 1960s; the other, a fairly standard office dramedy with quirky elements of ad-agency verisimilitude thrown in for flavor. That may sound like I’m saying they’re not the same because one is good and the other is bad, but Trust Me isn’t deficient, just … ordinary. In one of life’s little TV ironies, Trust Me probably wouldn’t have been greenlit were it not for Mad Men, one of the few shows on TV that makes it look lame by comparison.

  • rhys1882

    The funny thing is that the entire reason it is being compared to Mad Men is exactly because there have been so few shows about advertising. Studio 60 and 30 Rock got compared for the same reason, despite similarly distinct difference between the two. The converse is that when there’s a new medical show or a new cop show, people say “oh no, here comes another cop procedural” or whatever. The fact is, you are going to get criticized somehow. Whether it’s because you are rehashing a genre people believe is tired, or because you are trying something that someone else has set the bar ridiculously high for. Just as people compare Sopranos and Brotherhood, and I feel that Brotherhood is a completely different animal.

  • masurix

    Zing! haha, I laughed out loud at the Bosom Buddies crack. Bravo, sir.

  • http://procrastinationchronicles.com procrastinator

    i have to admit that i didn’t watch Mad Men when it first came out just because it was set in advertising (my day job was one that i didn’t want to see in entertainment form) and have been told repeatedly how that’s NOT what it’s about… so i decided to give Trust Me a shot, that is what this is about…
    .
    i would watch Bosom Buddies again, and again, and…

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