Despite the fact that this week’s episode was titled “The Good News,” it seemed to be filled with bad news. Cancer. Divorce. Loneliness. In the opening scene though, we do learn some good news (even if it’s in the office of that weird doctor who once urged Peggy not to become the “town pump”): despite [...]
I wanted to write a post about Sunday’s episode of Mad Men–how we saw the return of some great characters; how Don continues a lonely, downward spiral; how Bobby’s lines rival those of Roger Sterling–but due to some monumental computer problems and a day of travel, I fell behind. Now, I think it’s a little [...]
Who is Don Draper? That’s what the Ad Age reporter asks at the beginning of season four. It’s a question that’s been asked since season one, and we’ve still yet to get a clear answer. Viewers have seen enough over the first three seasons to draw their own conclusions–creative genius, father, cheating husband, mystery man [...]
If you’re anything like me, this week can’t go by fast enough for you. Sunday night is the night; Mad Men returns for its fourth season on the always satisfying cable network, AMC. The anticipation is palpable all over America as this show has gone from a cult favorite to a full-blown phenomenon. Countless people [...]
Now that Breaking Bad has ended another incredible season–did those last few episodes blow you away like they did me? (Ha! a pun!)–it’s time to move on to Mad Men. Season four begins in about a month, and I couldn’t be more excited. Like a lot of people in the design and advertising communities, this [...]
Because if you’re not, you’re missing out on a cable juggernaut that has been gaining incredible momentum over the past three years. In addition to a wide variety of movies–which is probably what you imagine is all the channel consists of if you aren’t familiar and go by the name–that span every genre and every [...]