• Time, Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:31 PM

Another sign of "Mad Men's" rising buzz: it has scored a complaint from the Parents Television Council, which says the show got a TV-14 rating when it should have been rated for mature audiences only. There were racy elements to this season's first episode, sure, "but nothing unprecedented in graphicness for the show," writes TV critic James Poniewozik.

Perhaps the PTC's attention was been drawn by the fact that the episode featured a big kiss between two gay men. Or could the complaint be an attempt to piggyback on the show's substantial pre-season publicity?

Actually, "the PTC has several points. Yeah, I probably would not screen the show for an average 14-year-old," concludes Poniewozik. But what 14-year-old is actually interested in watching "moody period pieces about the social mores of affluent suburbs in the 1960s? For whom is this actually a serious concern?"

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