" Roughly 5.3 million people watched the first episode of "The Walking Dead" on AMC, a stunning 83 percent more than the 2.9 million who watched the season four premiere of "Mad Men." This means there are at least 2.4 million cable-ready Americans who would prefer watching Christina Hendricks if she were an animated corpse. "

― Chuck Klosterman , Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century