HBO should have had Mad Men. It would have been 13 minutes longer and had more gratuitous flesh--Jon Hamm's butt, anyone? But instead, it's abandoned the dead for the undead. It remains to see how auteur #1, Alan Ball, distinguishes his creatures of the night from those of auteur #2 Joss Whedon. Except, of course, for the extra minutes and the gratuitous flesh.