Things are definitely percolating in the season's penultimate episode: Megan and Don have grown dangerously far apart, Pete has discovered Bob Benson's secret, and Sally has certainly not gotten over seeing her father have sex with Sylvia.
"Favors," last night's episode, falls in the same naming vein as the previous week's "A Tale of Two Cities," in which the allusions are evident from the start. Can people do things for other people without expectations in return? What's in a favor, anyway? (Plenty.)
Last night's Mad Men, an episode titled "The Better Half," was all about couples and family — who you choose to be with, who you choose not to be with, who you decide not to choose, and of course, how all those choices impact you and beyond.
Well, last night's Mad Men — the eighth episode this season, titled "The Crash" — was interesting to say the least. Some people loved it, others hated it, and it left a lot of us a bit befuddled (much like Ted Chaough in the photo above).
Last night's Mad Men could be called an escalation episode. SCDP and CGC are in the process of merging, and things are closing in and constricting, even while the agency is expanding. Oh, and there are power struggles!
Last night's Mad Men is being called the comeback episode. There was Joan calling out the Don Draper-man's world, Megan's mother Marie giving sex tips and drinking straight from a bottle of wine, and Peggy fantasizing about her boss. Oh, and a twist, too.
Last night's episode of Mad Men, "The Flood," brought our characters to a pivotal date in history: April 4, 1968, the day that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
Last night's episode of Mad Men was called "To Have and to Hold," and like last week, it was as soapy as the name would have you think.
AMC has announced that the final eight episodes of its highly lauded, cultishly followed moral disaster series Breaking Bad will begin airing on August 11. Meaning you have just under four months to lock in your theories about what will happen to meth-makin' Walter White and all those caught in his web of horror. Will he get away with it? Let's discuss.
Today in show business news: AMC is thinking about spinning off a beloved Breaking Bad character, Anne Hathaway lands a huge new role, and Chloe Sevigny has officially been made a detective.
Mad Men is back, and the season premiere did not disappoint. As for the women, as Don and Roger flail, Peggy and Megan — and maybe even Betty — have changed, with professional successes for the former, and at least a hint of happiness for the latter.
Today in show business news: A surprising talent gets involved in the network pilot game, bad news for Breaking Bad, and our first look at Michel Gondry's latest.
So it's been announced that Mad Men, perhaps the most-beloved show of the current Quality TV age, will be returning for its sixth (and likely penultimate) season on April 7th. Most people are reacting to the news with excitement but we're feeling a little more subdued. Not because we don't like the show. But because we know where too much hype can get us.
Today in show business news: Another leader has walked away from AMC's biggest show, Rebel Wilson gets an MTV hosting gig, and Tyler Perry teases Kim Kardashian.
Today in show business news: the X-Men prequel gets all Avengers-y, Matthew McConaughey gets an actual acting nomination, and AMC gets to work on two new shows. Also: Brody must die.
Dish Network and AMC are friends again. They agreed to a $700 million settlement in their ongoing lawsuit that saw Dish black out AMC while Mad Men and Breaking Bad were airing. Which means Dish subscribers can stop intruding on their friends to watch The Walking Dead.
Last night's season premiere of The Walking Dead was the highest rated show of the fall, on any channel. Also in showbiz news: Lindsay Lohan is interviewed again for some reason, Aaron Paul gets a big lead role, and Christoph Waltz will lead Russia.
Ms. Ryder has the scoop (sort-of) on the much-anticipated Beetlejuice sequel, a Streep daughter gets a job, and The Walking Dead is ready for its third season.
Rosie Larsen was finally able to rest in peace after The Killing's second season finale, and for a moment it seemed like the show had met its maker, too. AMC cancelled it, but Fox Television Studios decided to shop it around, and now we know who's in the market.
Today in showbiz news: Ryan Seacrest has earned Olympics favor, Ben Affleck gets offered a super job, and the Dish Network sure is ornery.
Can a major pay TV service really just drop a somewhat major channel that’s currently running a widely anticipated, Emmy-winning series and get away with it?
You know how people are always trying to determine the best TV series ever? Like, maybe it's The Sopranos, maybe it's The Wire. We're just gonna come right out and say it: Breaking Bad is The Best Show.
Today: Angelina makes her witchy debut, General Wesley Clark does the unthinkable, and AMC might have a dead body on its hands.
Last night AMC's The Killing finally solved the Rosie Larsen murder after two seasons of frustrating red herrings, plenty of turgid emoting, and lots and lots and lots of rain. Was the conclusion satisfying? Yes and no.
Long ago, back in March, we did a little wondering about what season five of Mad Men might look like. Well now it's June and the season has come to a close, so let's take a look back at the season that was about the isolation of ambition, and the not always immediately apparent side-effects of success.
Whether metaphorical or literal, President Obama's life is filled with the vintage characters of the little-watched but widely-praised AMC series Mad Men.
Sunday night's episode of Mad Men was a culmination of themes that have been percolating all season—and quite possibly, the best episode thus far of season five.
The New York Times reports today that AMC Theatres, America's second-biggest movie theater chain, may soon be purchased by a Chinese company, the Wanda Group, which, as one of the biggest theater operators in China, is no stranger to the Chinese government's longstanding practice of censoring American movies. So what happens if they come to own such a large part of the American movie market?
Women are not simply happy because they're being provided for in this post-Betty Mad Men world. They want more, and more is varied, complicated, individual, and sometimes problematic.
A legal battle between Dish Network and AMC is likely what's leading to Dish dropping AMC's channels starting this summer, which could put your Mad Men viewing party plans in serious jeopardy.
Sunday's episode of Mad Men ended with three generations of characters in various states of abject despair, sitting at a table at a fancy dinner.
The show is still far from perfect, but the second season has actually been significantly better.
Sunday's Mad Men brought us three main plot lines. They all had to do with angry women.
Today: Rupert Murdoch gets the movie treatment, Disney resurrects an amphibian, and Charlie Sheen is, well, winning.
Today: Ryan Seacrest has an announcement, Katy Perry has announced her latest dropping, and Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels may be teaming up again.
Haven't gotten around to watching the first four seasons of Mad Men in time for tonight's Season 5 premiere? We can get you up to speed in no time.
The long delayed fifth season of AMC's Mad Men, TV's current Best Show, finally premieres in three weeks, meaning Mad madness is kicking into high gear. But what do we really know about what's about to arrive? Well, not much, unfortunately.
AMC's coulda-been-great zombie apocalypse series The Walking Dead returned to the airwaves last night to resume the show's second season after a shocking midseason finale (a concept we really should do away with altogether) back in December.
In a thoughtful essay for Esquire, Tom Junod -- who penned the magazine's 2003 piece about the iconic photo of a man falling from the World Trade Center on Sept 11 -- weighs in on the mini-controversy surrounding Mad Men's newest promotional image.
Mad Men will soon(ish) be upon us, Blake Lively pops pills, and Miley Cyrus takes a terrible trip to Paris.
Fans will rejoice to hear that the much-delayed fifth season of AMC's Mad Men will finally debut on March 25, 2012, according to its star Jon Hamm.
Matthew McConaughey disrobes for your American pleasure, Lady Gaga is a deadbeat employer, and things get hairy for Ben Affleck.
We're glad that the heretofore listless season of The Walking Dead got interesting last night.
Plus: Paramount turns the Oscars into an Eddie Murphy marketing event
Walter White will meet his end after one (or two) more seasons.
Plus: Jennifer Lopez breaks her two week Marc Anthony silence
Frank Darabont leaves right before a major press tour.
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