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SPOILER ALERT: Before you read this review, put a mask on your face, breathe deeply and watch last night’s Season 5 finale of Mad Men.
Season 5 of Mad Men ended with Don Draper in a bar, fielding an advance from a cute young …
Until very recently, Jared Harris held major roles in two popular TV shows — as David Robert Jones on Fringe and as Lane Pryce on Mad Men. Then, in less than a month, the respective show runners killed off both of his …
It’s official: Lane resigns, Sally becomes a woman, and Jaguar proves once again to be an unreliable car. This week’s episode had us letting Glen take the wheel
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Spoilers for last Sunday’s Mad Men, “The Other Woman,” and previous episodes, below:
Joan Harris was manipulated, played false and used on Sunday night. Not just by the men in her life, but by Mad Men itself.
During Mad Men‘s early seasons, the catalyst that drove the narrative was the mystery of Don’s identity. As we got to know the characters, their respective development was front and center, but what really drove the show, what we …
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Spoilers for last Sunday’s Mad Men (and the season so far in general) below:
I was traveling over the weekend and had to watch Mad Men late, but if the reports I got over my Twitter feed were any indication, “Dark Shadows” was …
There’s a theory in international relations that nations exist in a perpetual state of near conflict and the only thing preventing all-out war is the fact that their relative strengths balance each other out. If one state becomes …
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My column in this week’s print TIME (subscription required) is a midseason update on Mad Men. In it, I look at how the show’s (literally) brighter, bolder 1966 color palette reflects (figuratively) the less subtle times it’s …
With the obvious exception of Superman, who used phone booths as changing rooms, scenes involving pay phones rarely lead to good developments. (One more exception: Ron Burgundy’s Glass Case of Emotion.) In last night’s Mad Men, …
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Is it possible that Sally Draper is the secret protagonist of Mad Men?
How are women faring on tv these days? Alison Bechdel’s new book, Are You My Mother?, came out last week and we thought it would be a good time to revisit her litmus test for female presence in movies and television.
For …
Megan scores, Peggy shacks up and Sally sees the dirty city. This week’s episode had us experiencing our first time again.
