Spoilers for last night’s Boardwalk Empire coming up:
The first two episodes of Boardwalk Empire, having introduced and expanded the worlds of Nucky Thompson and the New York and Chicago mobs, impressed upon us how dangerous …
Mad Men Watch: Yesterday, All My Troubles Seemed So Far Away
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, pop in your earplugs, put on an old Beatles movie—maybe you should invite your dad and your girlfriend!—then catch last night’s episode of Mad Men.
It is not a revelation to say …
Boardwalk Empire Watch: Everybody Needs a Hand
Spoilers for last night’s episode of Boardwalk Empire coming up:
The impressive thing, and in a way the problem, of the pilot of Boardwalk Empire was that it was so movie-like. (An inevitable impression since it had Martin …
Mad Men Watch: Women’s Movements
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, hop a train to the city and watch last night’s Mad Men with your father’s “friend.”
No one knows where the next revolution is coming from. I suppose that’s why they’re revolutions. So …
Boardwalk Empire Watch: Land of Opportunity
I plan/hope to do a full-fledged Boardwalk Empire Watch, but with a looming deadline and Mad Men and Rubicon on the same night, with network premiere week looming—and having just published my review based on the first six …
Mad Men Watch: Everybody Back in the Pool
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, crack open a Budweiser, open up a can of delicious Dinty Moore beef stew—or just go to the vending machine—and watch last night’s Mad Men.
Last night’s episode of Mad Men, “The …
Mad Men Watch: The Boxer
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, buy a ticket to the closed-circuit screening at your local theater and watch last night’s Mad Men.
It was structured around one historic fight, and featured a few others—some verbal, …
Mad Men Watch: I’d Like to Thank the Academy
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, slip out of those uncomfortable clothes and watch last night’s Mad Men.
As if aware that viewers would be toggling between Mad Men winning Emmys on NBC and Mad Men earning them on AMC, …
Mad Men Watch: Paging Dr. Lyle Evans
Before reading this post, enjoy dinner and a show at a Benihana restaurant, then watch last night’s Mad Men.
Sally Draper got a haircut, and Roger Sterling a dressing down, in the fifth and strongest episode of the fourth season. Streamlined compared with last week’s scattershot plot, the new hour, titled “The Chrysanthemum and the …
Mad Men Watch: Weekend Update
Why is this Mad Men Watch being posted on the weekend? Three reasons. Because I had to think through my initial disappointment and confusion about season 4, episode 4: “The Rejected.” (Indeed, my first impulse after watching …
Mad Men Watch: A Welcome Distraction
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, order out for some fried chicken and watch last night’s Mad Men.
After two episodes that took in a pretty wide swath of characters, updating and establishing a number of storylines, …
Mad Men Watch: Christmas Stalkings
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, apply some refreshing Ponds Cold Cream to your face and watch last night’s Mad Men.
Christmas 1964 came to Mad Men this episode, and with it, several old friends showed up. There was …
Mad Men Watch: Keeping Up Appearances
SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this post, turn on the TV in your lonely bachelor apartment and watch last night’s season premiere of Mad Men.
The theme of the new season of Mad Men is identity, says Matthew Weiner, and …
