So no, the Battlestar box set doesn't deserve to sit on the shelf beside Mad Men et al. But there is one fantasy series that has all those attributes boasted about in that Sky advert.
Besides, this mad dystopian crime opera has already left its mark.
Besides, while mad dogs and Englishmen are quite prepared to visit Caribbean islands in the hot, humid hurricane season, Americans tend to stay away.
He slips into his seat beside fellow pros Mads Jonsson and Kelly Clark and after taking a careful, and eventually approving, look at the image of himself on the stack of posters in front of him, he looks up at the first kid to walk the line and smiles.
Besides being barking mad, everyone in this circle, it seems, could paint.
But it's a modern classic (calling it) that should stand beside The Sopranos, Mad Men and The Wire when people discuss the best shows of the 21st century.
By Mads Rosendahl Thomsen.
Besides making the pets mad, you just might ruin the vacuum cleaner.
If beside the stupid and mad-brained political project of their rulers, the sane part of the people of England required fresh proof of the alarming increase of the effects of insanity, they will be too well convinced from its having lately spread into the hitherto sober region of art.
And are no longer, alas: I left a screening of Avengers: Age of Ultron, the action movie of right now (beside the just-out Mad Max: Fury Road), having gazed in befuddlement as CGI cities rose and fell without a hint of crimson to spoil the happy affair.
