Mad Men ii.

Yup. I was right. The bloody foot from the John Deere tractor, guess what, was indeed a precursor to, as we all knew somewhere, a very bad sad awful low incomprehensibly unexpected jarring sickening day to even remember.

We have to say, Madmen used the TV coverage of the day, far more than one might have thought, and with great effect, and better than even the History Channel does. Where did they get all those clips? Usually you just get Cronkite, taking his glasses away, after looking up at the clock, the word, apparently official, from Dallas, ... But here we had the precursor, not just the newsflash something was up, but step by step, an ominous, President face down in the car, according to eyewitness.

How moving, though, the punch from the old black and white clips, somehow rendered here on real old TV sets so you can get an idea of what it was like to watch.

That is a real television achievement, truly. Where clips have been seen of the coffin being taken off Airforce One, the weird lights, the lift, jarring and enough to get all the personal point across, even before the dumb ambulance arrives with Bob holding Jackie's hand, everyone numb, awful, the metal quality of the box a body is in, death of vital force, here we got walked through, quite well, what it may have been like to be watching the tube that day, and the day after, and the day after that.

Not heard yet, where the drums tapping in the still air.

All of this is obvious. All of this we expected, somehow would fit into our plot of Ancient Rome and New York. It was done well.

Or, rather, it was simply shown. The coverage of the day capturing all that was going on. Moment to moment. Even Oswald, being shot, and the later commentary by news people.

The news is, in strange rare circumstances, just told to us, by people equally as shocked as ourselves.

The horrific really came across, perhaps leaving us more shaken the day after, the day after the numbness and raw tears.