March 2012
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“I always find it comes down to the two questions I have in my life, which are:...”
– Mad Men creator Matt Weiner, on the essence of the show
Animated Gifs! Peggy Dancing, Pete Crashing, Lane... →
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5.1 and 5.2: Last Night's One Perfect Moment
Elise note: This is submitted by Friend Jason in Texas, who I hope will be submitting more throughout the season.
It will shock exactly no one who knows me that I was a band geek in high school. Something Ron Jones, my stage band director, taught us keeps rattling around my head when I watch Mad Men. Jones told me that the rests are as important as the notes. In Mad Men, what is said is always...
5.1 and 5.2: or, The Lots of Megan's Side-Boob...
Tonight, my roommate and I talked about how nervous season five made us. And if we TV nerds acknowledged this nervousness, surely Matthew Weiner et. al are feeling some summer-of-‘66-level heat because of the scrutiny the show is under. We fear the show’s decline, a decline which could come from the the lack of fresh ideas, a new-found (or at least enlarged) sense of grandiosity from...
5.1, 5.2: Mad Men, Back Again
1. Anyone else think the music was a bit heavy handed?
2. Can we take a minute to look at the new environments? Don has ditched his apartment downtown for a swank Midtown pad. Pete left the UWS for… New Jersey? Connecticut? Somewhere with a train, obviously.
3. Interesting to see Roger and Jane fighting — also some of the funniest moments of the episode. But it’s worth noting that...
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5.1 and 5.2: For Every Season, Beans Beans Beans
We’ve waited 17 months for this comeback; on the show, only mere months have passed. (Season 4 took place between November 1964 and October 1965.) Instead of jumping two years in time, as we saw between Seasons 1 (1960) and 2 (1962), Mad Men head honcho Matthew Weiner starts us in June 1966, right in the middle of the fast, changin’ times.
Unlike Phillip, I deliberately decided not...
The Beginning of Things
Did you ever think of the number of things that had to happen for me to get to know you? That everything happened, and it got me here? What does it mean?
I originally was just going to watch Tomorrowland, the incredible season four finale to Mad Men, to prep for the return of Mad Men. Then I remembered what happened - Don goes off to California, brings his secretary only because his ex-wife...
