Mad Men Season Five -- A Rough Start
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.
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.
Tony Sachs | Posted 07.20.2011
It's hard to figure out why someone didn't come up with such a great way to celebrate such a cocktail-mad city long ago.
The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011
Mad Men and publishing in the early 1960s were pretty much the same business, same characters, same everything: booze-y lunches, shag a secretary, at ...
Samantha Zalaznick | Posted 05.25.2011
Last night's Mad Men episode, "The Beautiful Girls," centers around Faye, Sally, Miss Blankenship, Peggy and Joan -- all in different stages of life, dealing with their own roles as women as well as their roles with the men that rely on them.
Samantha Zalaznick | Posted 05.25.2011
Wow! This week's episode of Mad Men was truly superb, the best this season--perhaps the best of any season. On the night of the historic Liston-Ali fight, Don and Peggy hang back in the office and do some sparring of their own.
Samantha Zalaznick | Posted 05.25.2011
On TV's big night, Matthew Weiner staged his own award show for the Mad Men characters. Even though Jon didn't take home the Emmy, luckily Don Draper got to win an award of his own.
Samantha Zalaznick | Posted 05.25.2011
Though less exciting, this episode served a necessary purpose, putting Allison's breakdown, Pete's pregnancy, and Peggy in the foreground.
Samantha Zalaznick | Posted 05.25.2011
When we begin episode three, the married couples are away on vacation and we're left with those still in the office on New Year's. This episode is really about Don, Lane and Joan.
Samantha Zalaznick | Posted 05.25.2011
Last night's episode of Mad Men moves us forward to Christmas, white-haired Roger Sterling is Santa Claus, and people are getting drunk and having sex.
Samantha Zalaznick | Posted 05.25.2011
In last night's season premiere of Mad Men, they take us to roughly a year later. Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce is up and running. The episode opens with a reporter asking, "So who is Don Draper?" Right now, Don Draper is a mess.
lacmaonfire.blogspot.com | Posted 05.25.2011
Mad Men is one of the few TV series in which the creators know something about art (unlike, say, Work of Art). Not only are the Sterling Cooper office...
David Sirota | Posted 05.25.2011
"I Want My Country Back". A motto that would be called treasonous if uttered by throngs of blacks, Latinos or Native Americans has been deftly sculpted by conservatives into an accepted clarion call for white power.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — "Mad Men" star John Slattery says not in my back yard. The actor, who plays advertising executive Roger Sterling on the hit televisi...
Victoria Namkung | Posted 05.25.2011
While it may seem like watching Mad Men is like opening an archive to the past, I think we watch it because its themes are symbolic to the present.
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011
For those in the audience who actually watch (and love and adore) Mad Men, this weekend's Saturday Night Live was a treat, since it featured series st...
Janet Turley | Posted 04.30.2012