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.
The key historial moment in Sunday night's episode wasn't just some smart move concocted inside the Mad Men writers' room. No, this scene basically wrote itself — because it really happened.
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.
Not only did the show have a glaring anachronism on Sunday, but the AMC favorite slid in the ratings, reminding us, once again, that for all we care about the trials and tribulations of Don and the gang, many people do not. Also: Don Draper is a jerk.
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.
The big spoiler of last night's Mad Men premiere wasn't the gorgeous symbolism, or really even the year in which the series picked up. It was a familiar face, at least to fans of short-lived TV shows.
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.
The Summer of Love has come and gone, never to be recorded in the official Mad Men record as the show's historical context — at once subtle and yet always looming — heads deep into the shadows of a complex year.
According to the strict media spoiler rules of the notoriously secretive show runner, the most revealing parts of Sunday's two-hour premiere include "partnerships" and, well, office-building architecture. Don't worry, we're not really spoiling anything here.
It's hard to write about Mad Men before a season premiere because — well, because there are a lot of rules about this stuff. But some outlets have succeeded at offering (excited!) fans some (somewhat important!) insight into what's ahead.
We've seen Sunday's two-hour season six opener, but we can't say much about it. We can, however, gently point you to Netflix for ten previous episodes that you might find very helpful.
In his first partially revealing interview ahead of season six, creator Matthew Weiner claims that the AMC show's legions of fans might have more control over the show—and the mystery of Don Draper's love life—than anyone thought. Sort of.
We're no fashion historians, but we looked at some old photographs of style icons against the brand-new Mad Men promo shots — and we saw some striking parallels.
Ads, photos, and promos are beginning to flood the cultural zone, leaving Mad Men fanatics grasping for answers about season six. Of course, there are no answers. There are never any early answers with one of television's most over-analyzed shows.
Meet Brian Sanders, the famed illustrator recruited by creator Matthew Weiner to create what is sure to be a ubiquitous new ad to advertise a show all about advertising.
AMC has now released staged, non-episodic press shots ahead of the new season, featuring our beloved misanthropes at a party that might (emphasis on the "might) just offer some clues about where (and when) we're at this time around.
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.
Time to start mixing Old Fashioneds: Mad Men is officially returning with a two-hour premiere. So, what's supposed to happen?
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Without the star power of the Oscars and the energetic musical interludes of the Grammys, the Emmys sometimes seem like the red-headed stepchild of the awards ceremonies.
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A poster child for cord cutting has given up on the cause, moving into an abode with a "tricked-out TV set up." That man is Forbes' Jeff Bercovici, who has gone without paying for cable for 13 years.
In an attempt to make the unsexy world of political advertising somewhat sexy, The Washington Post's Philip Rucker looks at the ad team Mitt Romney has assembled, a team that predictably calls themselves the "Mad Men." Yes, here comes that old Mad Men meme again.
Every day The Atlantic Wire highlights the video clips that truly earn your five minutes (or less) of attention.
As much as everyone's excited to have the regular cast of Arrested Development back, guest roles were one of the best parts of the show's original three season run. TV Line reports the first announced guest for the upcoming season will be none other that John Slattery, aka Roger Sterling.
Caitlin Moran's personal essay "I Know Why the Fat Lady Sings," calls compulsive overeating "the most pointlessly secret of miseries" for women.
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.
In the last episode of a season in which we saw Lane's suicide, Peggy leaving the agency, Joan sleeping with someone to ensure the Jaguar win (and a partnership for herself), Sally hitting puberty (literally), and Betty in Weight Watchers, our main man has a toothache.
In today's Call Sheet: A potential spoiler has been leaked from the offices of Sterling Draper Cooper Pryce, Jerry O'Connell gets a spooky new job, and Darren Aronofsky picks two young men.
Of course it's very exciting for us viewers when a major character dies on a television show (or it's sad? Sure, sometimes it's sad), but for the actor involved it must kinda feel like, "Oh, well, I just got fired." Though usually official word from the set is that everything was fine and copacetic.
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.
If you were Jaguar, how would you have felt about Sunday's episode of Mad Men, in which the head of Jaguar's dealers association extorts the ad agency, promising to approve its campaign in return for a night with office manager Joan Harris?
Because of some trick of fate or due simply to poor timing, both HBO's Game of Thrones and AMC's Mad Men aired big, game-changing episodes right smack dab in the middle of the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Awfully sneaky, guys!
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.
You can't change your life until you change who you are.
The title of Sunday night's Mad Men was "Dark Shadows," but let's call it by its more colloquial name. This episode was about that darkest of dysfunctional family holidays, the one with the turkey.
We kind of love the meticulous attention and historical accuracy that Matthew Weiner and his team bring to Mad Men, so for your Monday morning reading consideration we present Victor S. Navasky's 1966 New York Times Magazine article on hip (not "hep," Bert) ad agencies which totally ruined Pete Campbell's Sunday.
It has come to our attention that some people are getting bored with this season's Mad Men. Everyone's a critic, right? But it's in our power to make television whatever we want it to be. Here's our bids for some new directions.
Was it worth it for Mad Men to drop a reported $250,000 to play The Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows" as the end of Sunday's episode? We're guessing it was.
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.
Sunday's Mad Men brought us three main plot lines. They all had to do with angry women.
In Today's New York Times, Brian Stelter uncovers a burgeoning problem in American living rooms: Too much good Sunday night TV. But is this quality television overload a real problem?
Yesterday we learned that HBO's new series Girls, perhaps more written about than any new show this year, premiered to only so-so numbers. And by "so-so" we mean for premium cable.
Sunday's Mad Men brought us a return of the Pete Campbell we all know and used to despise. And it was somewhat beauteous, in a horrors-of-domesticity sort of way.
We've enlisted the help of a former '60s-era ad exec to run down the factual inaccuracies and anachronisms of Mad Men.
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