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Mad Men Recap: "Little Murders"

Samantha Zalaznick | Posted 05.29.2012

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Selling sex is a basic advertising concept that we see over and over, but it's much harder to swallow when the concept becomes a reality.

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Mad Men: A Great Leaper Forward? Joan, Jag, Don's Return to Advertising (And Other, er, Treks)

William Bradley | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Culture News, Jaguar, James Bond, TV Ratings, Christina Hendricks, Pete Campbell, Jared Harris, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, Television News, Mao Zedong, Mad Men, Star Trek, TV News

"Christmas Waltz" is an improved episode of Mad Men in this uneven season of a longtime great TV series, an episode with a very welcome return to advertising. Too much of this season has been taken up with some fairly arbitrary soap opera doings.

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Lisa Gizara: The Woman Behind the Art Behind the Mad Men

Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 05.22.2012

When Mad Men's set decorator needed paintings with the specific panache to match Roger's sly and savvy personality, she turned to the collection of photographer and painter Lisa Gizara.

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Mad Men Through The Boomers Lens: Don Offers Up Some Harrison Ford-Styl

Steven C. Eisner | Posted 05.21.2012

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Now that Don is back, he appears determined to make SCDP succeed

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Mad Men Recap: Soap Opera Digest(ed)

Samantha Zalaznick | Posted 05.16.2012

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Even the Devil drinks a Sno Ball and even Mad Men can get hit in the face. "Dark Shadows" just wasn't on its usual high level of awesomeness.

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Mad Men: Danger! Slippery When Soapy (Especially in Dark Shadows)

William Bradley | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Culture News, 1960s, New York, Matthew Weiner, Nelson Rockefeller, Advertising, Betty Draper, Don Draper, Conrad Hilton, Television News, Mad Men, John Lindsay, Entertainment News

If there's one thing we know for sure about the latest episode of Mad Men, it's this: All this soapiness can mean only one thing. People are about to die.

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Mad Men Through the Boomer Lens: This Week It's Shades of Fatal Attraction

Steven C. Eisner | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Television, Entertainment, Mad Men, Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Don Draper, Fatal Attraction, Fifty News

A succession of out-of-control Mad Men rivalries in the latest episode filled my mind with disturbing scenes from Fatal Attraction, the 1987 cautionary film about infidelity.

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'Mad Men' Star Talks About Her Famous Feature

Posted 05.14.2012

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Television's "it" girl of the moment is Jessica Paré of "Mad Men" -- you know, the girl who plays Megan on the hit AMC show, stole Don Draper's heart...

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'Mad Men's' Megan Slams 'Dark Shadows'

The Huffington Post | Christopher Rosen | Posted 05.14.2012

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Megan Draper: future film critic? Spoiler Alert: This article reveals minor plot details from "Mad Men" Season 5 Episode 8. If you don't wish to kn...

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LEAKED 'Mad Men' Finale!

Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Jason Woliner, Jon Hamm, Matthew Weiner, Video, Don Draper, Amc, Aziz Ansari, Comedy News

If you're gullible enough to believe that Matthew Weiner has written the series finale of "Mad Men," which will air in the summer of 2014 at the very ...

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9 Ways Jon Hamm Wants You To Know He's Not Don Draper

The Huffington Post | Alex Moaba | Posted 05.09.2012

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Jon Hamm seems very intent on letting people know that he's not actually Don Draper. For Hamm, who emerged from relative Hollywood obscurity in 2007 t...

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Mad Men: Rejecting Advertising, Or, Don Draper Meets Acid Rock, Pop Buddhism, and an Independent Wife

William Bradley | Posted 05.08.2012

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Don't look now, but something important just happened on Mad Men. A major character, someone with real talent in the field, just rejected advertising. Someone who happens to be ad guru Don Draper's bright and shiny new wife.

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Face It: The Incredibly Shrinking Don Draper

Michele Willens | Posted 05.08.2012

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Jon Hamm doesn't even seem to fit in his clothes anymore. I fear Matthew Weiner has accomplished the impossible: he has turned Don Draper into a wimp. And me into a Mad Woman.

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Mad Men Recap: 'It's Not Dying'

Samantha Zalaznick | Posted 05.08.2012

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I loved this episode. It was fast-paced, it was funny, it was deep and it had the Beatles.

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Mad Men Through The Boomer Lens: When it Comes to Affairs, Boy, How Times Have Changed!

Steven C. Eisner | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Television, Entertainment, TV Advertising, 1960s, Pete Campbell, Lady Lazarus, Don Draper, Affairs, Mad Men, Peter Campbell, Fifty News

Is Weiner readying Peter's so easily turned head for the chopping block?

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WATCH: Jon Hamm Improvises Song About '70s Sitcom

Posted 05.08.2012

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Don Draper may not "get" the Beatles, but Jon Hamm is so well-versed in retro pop culture that he can make up songs about '70s sitcoms on the spot. In...

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When I Grow Up, I Want to Be ... Don Draper's Mother-in-Law?

Jennifer Tress | Posted 05.14.2012

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When I grow up, I want to be Julia Ormond. Not the unsatisfied booze-swilling character she plays on Mad Men but the woman herself. A woman who appears comfortable in her own skin, even as she ages.

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Mad Men: To The Moon! (And Crashing Back Again)

William Bradley | Posted 05.01.2012

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After a few weeks of episodes dominated by stagey set pieces driven by forced plotting, entertaining though it was, Mad Men is back to its more customary approach of organic storytelling.

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Disappointment And Desire At The 'Mad Men' Ball

Maureen Ryan | Posted 04.30.2012

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I love the complexity and ambiguity of the show, but will it continue to arc downward? Like a worried parent, I must confess to wanting more for these flawed, absorbing, misguided, fascinating people.

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Mad Men Season Five -- A Rough Start

Janet Turley | Posted 04.30.2012

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Mad Men -- welcome back from what's been amateur hour at SCDP. I'm not talking about the copywriters, campaigns or maiden voyages on an acid trip. I'm talking about the series writers.

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'Mad Men': Roger Hooks Up With Megan's Mom

The Huffington Post | Alex Moaba | Posted 04.30.2012

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"Mad Men" (Sundays at 10 p.m. ET on AMC) has had plenty of wild parties this season, but this past Sunday's episode, "At the Codfish Ball," may have b...

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The Boys Are Back in Town

Molly Fosco | Posted 04.26.2012

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The fifth season of AMC's Mad Men is in full swing. As is appropriate with the maturing of a series, the characters seem more mature as well, yet I'm happy to report they all still seem to be their same old selves.

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Mad Men Recap: Turn on, Tune in, Drop Out

Samantha Zalaznick | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Megan Draper, Beach Boys, Matthew Weiner, Scott Hornbacher, Acid, Peggy Olson, Don Draper, Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Timothy Leary, Lsd, Elizabeth Moss, Mad Men, Howard Johnson's, TV News

He expected her to wait for him, but she's a modern woman and she can get home on her own. It's telling that she doesn't expect him to come back for her, or does she just not want to be there when he does?

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Mad Men: Wibbly-Wobbly, Timey-Wimey, Trippy-Wippy (and Peggy Olson Is No Dana Scully)

William Bradley | Posted 04.24.2012

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The hairpin plot twists so evident in last week's episode continue in this one, as does the sense of suddenly (seemingly?) impending doom.

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Mad Men Through the Boomer Lens: Bring on Thelma & Louise

Steven C. Eisner | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Mad Men, Matthew Weiner, Far Away Places, Pete Campbell, Joan Harris, Mad Men Season Five, Don Draper, Fifty News

In retrospect, we could see Don and Megan's showdown at HoJos coming a mile away.

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