What to Wear Part II - You Can Never be Overdressed

Daria Shualy, 12.12.2009

My motto is the reason why I no longer fear the dress code I mentioned in my previous column. And the motto goes: You can never be overdressed - everyone else is simply underdressed!

A Sit Down With Shepard Fairey & Matthew Weiner

Tom Matlack, 12.10.2009

Co-founder of The Good Men Project

When Matthew Weiner, creator of Mad Men, and Shepard Fairey, of Obama "Hope" fame, get together the conversation might be rambling and random, but definitely entertaining.

Dexter, Friday Night Lights and Sons of Anarchy Bring a Decade of Outstanding TV Drama to a Close

Ed Martin, 12.10.2009

JackMyers.com Television Critic

It's hard to think of anything that will evoke fond memories when people look back on these last ten years, but the "Decade from Hell" ushered in a new Golden Age of Television.

Boob-Tube: Best Television Of 2009 (and the decade)

Jake Arky, 12.18.2009

Writer and performer

It is the end of the year and the end of the decade. For some of you, it will be a time of sitting down to family dinners, exchanging gifts, and creat...

Can Mad Men be Good Men?

Tom Matlack, 12.10.2009

Co-founder of The Good Men Project

This Saturday my crew is taking its nationwide discussion of what it means to be a good father, good son, good husband and good worker to Los Angeles.

North by Northwest's 50th Anniversary Edition: Enduring Appeal and the Mad Men Factor

William Bradley, 12.03.2009

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

What can you say about a 50-year old movie? If it's by Alfred Hitchcock, and it's a classic of suspense, humor, and style, and it's influenced the best series on television, Mad Men, quite a lot.

Is Mad Men the Ultimate in Product Placement?

Vivian Norris de Montaigu, 11.29.2009

Based in Paris and holds a PhD in Cinema Studies

What ad men did to America was make us into consumers. And that is what brought us down. Maybe Mad Men will help us understand what went so terribly wrong so that we might do it better this time around.

Giving Thanks for Pals -- and Palin

Keli Goff, 11.27.2009

Author, commentator and contributor to TheLoop21.com

Because you just never know what Palin and her clan are going to say or do, those of us constantly looking for stuff to write about owe Palin a humble thank you.

Ten Films For The Coming Weeks

John Farr, 11.28.2009

Writer, editor and lecturer on timeless film

Get ready, folks, for the coming blur of forced reunions, work-related functions, and cacophonous Christmas parties.

Mad Men: Three Seasons On and Looking Forward

William Bradley, 11.22.2009

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

I've been thinking about the arc of the series, from 1960 to 1963. Where has the series been, where is it now, and where might it be going with creator Matthew Weiner?

Meditations In an Emergency

Travis Nichols, 11.19.2009

Editor at the Poetry Foundation.

O'Hara and Schuyler are great poets for hard times. Friends who have been there, and, it seems, will continue to be, they give us courage to go on our nerve in whatever emergencies arise.

In Defense of Betty Draper

Danny Miller, 11.17.2009

Danny Miller is a writer and book editor in Los Angeles.

My feelings about Mad Men's Betty Draper were so strong during this season that I began to wonder if they were really about the TV character at all, and not my own mother.

Mad Men and the Decline of America

Vivian Norris de Montaigu, 11.16.2009

Based in Paris and holds a PhD in Cinema Studies

As Don Draper reminds us again and again, love is something a guy like him creates to sell us nylons. We buy, we consume, we dream, but we need to build something real again.

TV Notes: Mad Men, V, General Hospital, Dollhouse, Vampire Diaries, Batman: Brave and the Bold and More

Ed Martin, 11.14.2009

JackMyers.com Television Critic

It's been a week and I am still recovering from the excitement of the season finale of AMC's Mad Men. In this column just a few weeks ago, before the ...

Channeling Betty Draper: Will She Smile Before Next Season's Final Episode of Mad Men?

Susan Weissman, 11.11.2009

Writes about Allergies and Parenting

For better or worse, confidence is not Betty Draper's problem. She may be quietly furious but she knows that she is a gorgeous monied honey; a paragon of Kennedy-era femininity.

Mickey Becomes a Rat And We All Like It: Why Are Our Heroes All Dark?

Lennard Davis, 11.11.2009

Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

What's happened to Mickey? I read today that Disney is about to launch a new Mickey video game in which our hero's sunny personality is going dark side.

Mad Men Politiku

Susanna Speier, 11.12.2009

Multiplatform Scribe, Susannaspeier.com

Politiku is about politics. At least, ever since its launch last spring, my HuffPost Politiku column has been. Obama, The Supreme Court, Iran, Healt...

Lay Off Betty Draper-Francis

Janet Turley, 11.10.2009

Graphics and marketing professional

The dashing and exciting bad boy ended up being a sh*t husband. Good for Betty. As far as other fans speculating that Henry Francis wants control over Betty, it's too soon to tell for me.

Mad Men's Sensational Season Finale -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley, 11.10.2009

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

It's action-packed, and not just for Mad Men, a show whose pace can sometimes be exceedingly deliberate. And it's fun, especially in contrast to the two shattering episodes which precede it.

It's November 22, 1963 On Mad Men: HuffPost Review

William Bradley, 11.04.2009

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

I've always wondered how Mad Men's writers and producers would handle one of the most critical and shattering events in American history, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Halloween Costumes Ripped From The Headlines

Glynnis MacNicol, 10.31.2009

Senior Editor, Mediaite.com

So it's the morning of Halloween, and you don't have a costume. You were going to be Kanye West, but the friend you were counting on to be your Taylor...