Season 2's slinky cool "The Jet Set" has been definitively dethroned as Mad Men's kookiest episode ever. We've gone from time out of mind to out of mind time.
Just to be clear, my long hiatus from the business was not entirely unintentional. After LA Law, I became obsessed with climate change and some new technologies that might help mitigate its effects and I focused a lot of my attention there.
Thank goodness for Baz Luhrmann. Without him, anachronistic music selections in this year's movies would be relegated to movie trailers. To wit: the m...
NEW YORK — "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner has a message for critics of season six of the AMC hit: "Fans don't run the show." After waiting ne...
This was a workmanlike episode, Mad Men moving some plot elements further into place, another chapter in Matt Weiner's novel for television, with some deft direction from series star Jon Hamm.
Note: Do not read on if you have not yet seen the Season 6 premiere of AMC's "Mad Men," titled "The Doorway." Don Draper is not having an easy go o...
This list of things critics shouldn't write about feels like an attempt to control things creator Matthew Weiner has no business controlling.
The hardest part about "Mad Men" for Matthew Weiner is also probably the hardest part for viewers: saying goodbye to characters. In an interview wi...
Jon Hamm and the rest of the "Mad Men" cast have become notorious for their anti-spoiler policy in interviews, handed down from show creator Matthew W...
John Slattery is giving "Mad Men" everything he's got on, and off-screen. The Emmy-nominated actor, who plays ad executive Roger Sterling on the A...
Even though Season 5 was a down year for Mad Men, it was still clearly one of the best shows on television. It took something very special to best it. Which brings us to Homeland. I'm pleased that Homeland won for best drama.
Will Peggy and Joan become bosom buddies in the next season of "Mad Men"? Not according to Christina Hendricks, who plays Joan. “I don’t think...
It's no secret that most actors are instructed to keep details of their shows under wraps, but "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner runs an especially tig...
Peggy's surprising exit from Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce during Season 5 of "Mad Men" left a strong impact on viewers. But in a recent interview w...
"Mad Men" Season 6 is already a-go and 7 is looking promising. According to The Hollywood Reporter, January Jones, Vincent Kartheiser and Elisabeth Mo...
Each week, outrageous, sad, shocking and hilarious pieces of TV news hit the web. Shows get canceled, directors get fired, casts get angry -- and like...
Jon Hamm and Kristen Wiig just can't seem to make it work onscreen. The unlikely couple first got together in the 2011 smash hit "Bridesmaids," where ...
You probably know John Ventimiglia by another name: Artie Bucco, the "warm and convivial" owner of Nuovo Vesuvio restaurant on "The Sopranos." The Que...
Jared Harris may have known about Lane Pryce's impending suicide on Season 5 of "Mad Men," but Elisabeth Moss had no idea Peggy would be leaving Sterl...
Was Don's silent look at the end of the Mad Men finale the equivalent of Schwarzenegger saying: "I'll be back"? Is it possible that the last three minutes of the episode redeemed the entire season?
This episode is haunted by phantoms of both the characters and the series, exposing the existence of everyone's double life.
So the episode's death, as a result of a chain of circumstances that seems somewhat contrived, doesn't have the impact that a more highly anticipated (hoped for?) demise would have.
Just when you get complacent with the status quo, Weiner purposefully pulls the rug out from under you. It might not always be elegantly done, but it's usually effective.
As soon as I saw what happened, I figured there would be a lot of controversy about the latest episode of Mad Men, "The Other Woman." And sure enough, there is.
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.
