If you want a short answer -- At a personal level, Don Draper is a deeply flawed human being.
It's been a long time since the Season 4 finale of "Mad Men." When Season 5 premieres on Sunday night, the gap between episodes will have reached a st...
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Don Draper, according to his spurned ex Faye, "only likes the beginnings of things." Is the show's audience in the same camp? Well, not quite. Dev...
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In just the past five years, we've seen the emergence of true streaming television, the arrival of the iPad and ascendancy of Snooki. TV is like the weather in Florida -- wait a minute and it will change.
When the nominations for the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards were announced July 14, the panelists for The Hollywood Reporter's inaugural TV Executive Roun...
With all four seasons of "Mad Men" now available to stream instantly on Netflix, we've compiled our favorite episodes from the past four years. Kierna...
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We could get distracted by the obvious oedipal theme -- Sally so wants to be her Dad's girl, and is vigilant about her perceived rivals -- but that's not where the money is for this girl.
Turns out that it's all Glen Bishop's fault. Oh, and the negative ions. It's the terrific if perplexing Season 4 finale of Mad Men, and no, I didn't see it coming beforehand.
Fresh starts bring back a renewed sense of the possible once the old ways have exhausted their potentialities and have become weighted with complicati...
I knew we could never be so cocky to think we'd actually figured out Matthew Weiner's next move, but every time (every time!) he manages to shock us, and thank God for that.
Addiction is the dominant theme in this episode. It weaves its predatory way through SCDP's decline, Midge's heroin habit, and even Glenn and Sally when he offers her a cigarette.
If there's one thing we've learned in nearly four seasons, it's that Don is a survivor. He's good at making lemonade from a bitter helping of lemons. But not everyone is going to make it through as the past gives way to the future.
It's the penultimate episode of the season, SCDP is desperate, and Don is making moves. We've come a long way since the beginning of the season, where Don struggled with his own identity, and now SCDP is struggling with theirs.
In the antepenultimate episode of Mad Men's very eventful Season 4, the pile-driving plot machinations of the previous episode have ground events into their trajectories.
The episode Chinese Wall showcases how business always seems to win in the battle between personal and professional lives.
This week, I'd like to focus on the garments we rarely get to see, underwear and pajamas. Actually, it seems that we've had quite a few glances of undies this season.
Even when Don's life appears to be settling into place, it's his own aversion to responsibility that threatens to turn it upside down.
Before I get to the Mad Men looks of the week, here's a little tribute to Miss Blankenship. No one rocked those cat eye sunglasses better than you!
As the title suggests, it's the ladies that drive this episode's plot. They range from young and rebellious, old and dead, or somewhere inbetween and ambivalent. "It's a business of sadists and masochists," Ida tells Peggy, "and you know which one you are."
After a season half-full of being a self-pitying, fall-down drunk, Don's turning a new leaf, becoming reflective and relatively sober, joining a gym, and 'seeing' a psychologist.
With New York Fashion Week underway, I couldn't help but see Betty in Ports 1961, Peggy in Jason Wu, Joan in Prabal Gurung, and Don in Simon Spurr. We cannot deny the profound effect Mad Men has had on the latest trends.
