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Mad Men: Goodbye to all that

October 18th, 2010 · 1 Comment · mad men, reviews, television

Mad Men’s season finale, “Tomorrowland,” was one of the densest episodes of the season. How do the writers cram all that story into one 43 minute episode? Amazing. We start with Don + Faye and end with Don + Megan, and the only thing surprising is how quickly that story turned around. I admit, I [...]

Mad Men: Cold Turkey

October 11th, 2010 · No Comments · mad men, reviews, television

I’ll be honest with you, I was nervous going into last night’s episode of Mad Men (“Blowing Smoke”), since the previous episode left such a bad taste in my mouth. Thankfully it was back to business as usual — which, of course, given the previous episode, isn’t exactly the best of all possible worlds. SCDP [...]

Mad Men: Everybody’s Got Something to Hide

September 27th, 2010 · 3 Comments · mad men, reviews, television

The obvious theme to last night’s Mad Men episode, “Hands and Knees,” is secrecy. Every storyline had to do with concealment, from Joan and Roger’s “oops” (we all saw that coming, right?) to Roger wanting to keep Lucky Strike’s departure secret, to Don’s false identity becoming a huge liability. I mean, it always was a [...]

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Mad Men: Everything is Political

September 20th, 2010 · No Comments · mad men, reviews, television

Last night’s episode is called “The Beautiful Girls,” which is an interesting choice. It is an easy and deceptively powerful way to undermine any woman’s power or agency to refer to her as a “beautiful girl”; it’s not necessary to take them seriously. And every woman/girl on the show last night either demanded to be [...]

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Mad Men: Satisfaction

September 13th, 2010 · No Comments · mad men, reviews, television

Was “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” the summer of ’65′s hot summer jam? The opening of last night’s episode, “The Summer Man,” makes it seem like it would have been. And I watched Don Draper reach into his shirt pocket for his cigarettes as Mick Jagger sings “he can’t be a man ’cause he doesn’t [...]

Mad Men: Of Hair and Sex

August 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · mad men, reviews, television

Apologies for getting this out so late. My internet connection has been finicky and odious and not only did it take approximately two hours for the episode to download from iTunes this morning, but as I write this I have no connection at all. I have a feeling that last night’s Mad Men episode, “The [...]

Mad Men: The Beauty Myth

August 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · mad men, reviews, television

Last night’s episode of Mad Men, “The Rejected,” was directed by John Slattery (Roger Sterling), and a damn fine episode it was, too. It’s splendid (or rather, SWELLIGANT) on its own, but is also masterfully linked to events that happen all the way back in Season 1. The focus group for Ponds, for example, begs [...]

Mad Men: Bad News Always Follows Good

August 9th, 2010 · No Comments · mad men, reviews, television

We’ve had two episodes of Mad Men that focused on characters separately, and the new Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce business as a whole, but last night’s episode, “The Good News,” focused on relationships. I love when it does that. When I saw the episode title I wasn’t sure whether it would be a Christian reference, [...]

Put Out or Get Out (aka MOAR MAD MEN)

August 4th, 2010 · No Comments · mad men, reviews, television

Hey kids! So that spiel I gave you on Monday about blogging about this show elsewhere? Forget I said that. Bygones. Here is a slightly (re)edited version of the post I wrote for them — I feel compelled to reblog it here since I reference it a few times in my first Mad Men post [...]

Mad Men: I don’t hate Christmas, I just hate THIS Christmas

August 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · mad men, reviews, television

So here’s how things are going to work for the foreseeable future: I’m blogging about Mad Men over at a new progressive magazine called Imagined, but in less recappy, more thematic way, which forces me to leave out a lot of stuff I still want to discuss about the show (and in a more personal [...]

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