You can’t be more civilly opinionated about "Mad Men" and "Trust Me" than the guy who wrote: "For the love of all humanity, please stop writing shows about advertising." We don’t think he likes either show. And he’s not alone.

Another reader responding to "TNT's Trust Me Advertising Show" said "it really is hard to like a coke-addled bi-polar Creative Director who still thinks it's 1978 and styles his hair accordingly." Sorry, Tom Cavanagh, he doesn’t like you, or at least your role.

Still another reader (without any justification we assume they are all men) doesn’t think we would like much about the ad business itself. "The truth," he writes, "is that the dysfunction and dishonesty that are part and parcel of working in advertising would make stomach-turning viewing. So would the commonplace contempt hipsters, aka younger creatives, have for consumers."

Our first correspondent likes "Mad Men" better than "Trust Me." That's "only because it's based in the 60's and that's what all of us in the business want to think is was like and nobody around to tell us differently."

Well, there are a few of us still around, but some of us toiled in the hinterlands and the Gotham Giants usually insisted we knew nothing about real advertising. Maybe, maybe thankfully, they were right.

Anyway, Correspondent No. 1 had this advice for the "Trust Me" producers: "If you want to do it, get some real life ad people in there and leave the Hollywood bozos to continue messing up law firms and doctor's offices."

To be fair, some people like "Trust Me," but we’re not sure how many are in the ad business.