It might've been around 3 days ago or so, Feb. 2, I finished my Mad Men project. I'd intended, before leaving Paris, to binge watch all 6 and a half seasons before arriving in Paris until I realized that I actually...didn't have to. The final bunch of episodes wouldn't be airing until some time in the spring so I was able to operate at a much ( Read more... )

Mad Men Season 5 Poster Controversy - Falling (Mad) Man - Tom Junod, Esquire"If, in 2003, America was finally able to look at a two year-old photograph suggesting that it had to revise what it thought it knew about how people died on 9/11, by 2007 it was primed to watch a prime-time melodrama suggesting that it had to revise what it thought it knew ( Read more... )

Watched the Mad Men season finale with a friend next door and enjoyed it, though I did find myself wanting. There were, of course, some wonderful lines (mostly attributed to Roger), but the flashbacks I found wholly unnecessary and lazy (a gripe I've had all season) and there were a few scenes near the end of the ep that struck me as redundant. All ( Read more... )

MAD MEN - A Review (thus far)

In my spare time, my sister showed me a trick with our cable box that provides us with AMC on Demand. Thus, I've been able to catch on to the coattails of the latest television super-phenomenon. And, guess what. It's not even on HBO or Showtime.

Mad Men, created by Sopranos writer Matthew Weiner, takes place in 1960' ( Read more... )