“You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone,” Joni Mitchell. What Joni said is true both for eras–the 1960s, and for places–Sterling, Cooper & Associates, where the partners made their deal with the devil at the end of…
“Did you ever get the feeling you’ve been had?” The notion that Don Draper returned to advertising at the end of his extended road trip could have been presented in any number of ways. The fact that Weiner chose…
SEVERANCE? Mad Men episode titles may leave you guessing at first, but usually by the time it’s over, the title’s meaning has revealed itself and often in a subtly clever way. But a week has two weeks have now passed, and…
You never know what’s going to happen from one week to the next on Mad Men. The only rule that seems to be holding true is that the show is staying strictly within the chronological confines of the 1960s from…
Mad Men purists loved “The Strategy,” because it had all the hallmarks of a classic Mad Men episode: a fabulous New York setting, slices of home life mixed with plenty of office drama and business intrigue, and sudden gut-punching reminders…
“The Runaways” was a fun Mad Men episode, and by fun I mean we saw a creative genius being carted away to the loony bin in front of his co-workers, a knocked-up dropout in her third trimester calling from a…
♦♦♦ FROM SINATRA TO ABBEY ROAD Now that we’re in the home stretch of the series, it appears more and more that Mad Men is designed to serve as a metaphor for the entire sweep of the Sixties, with Season…
Preamble The reason I love Mad Men has nothing to do with the show’s soap opera aspects, but rather because of the unique way they presented the momentous decade of the 1960s. First they seduced us with vignettes showing what…