“The Strategy” offers a nice shift back to what makes Mad Men accepted by all that enjoy this series. While last week’s episode, “The Runaways,” did its best to jump in some different directions, while still utilizing key elements of…
TV Review: AMC’s Mad Men 7×5, “The Runaways”
It is episodes like “The Runaways” that can make Mad Men such a difficult show to cover on a weekly basis. It is not a matter of quality diminishing necessarily, but Matthew Weiner and his team certainly have a lot…
TV Review: AMC’s Mad Men 7×4, “The Monolith”
We get a break from Betty this week, but Harry Crane is still in full force, as he now has the computer he has desperately wanted being setup in the office. Being that it’s 1969, this means an entire room…
TV Review: AMC’s Mad Men 7×3, “Field Trip”
The first commercial break in this week’s episode of Mad Men did not come until 18 minutes in. For television, that is an impressive amount of time. For a series that does not rely on action and really had nothing…
TV Review: AMC’s Mad Men 7×2, “A Day’s Work”
Things (and people) were really moving around this week. Last week’s episode may have been a nice setup for this season, providing us some perspective on who is where and how Don and SC&P are working, while being separated from…
TV Review: AMC’s Mad Men 7×1, “Time Zones”
With only one season left, I may not have jumped onto the “writing about Mad Men” scene in the timeliest of fashions, but I have only recently started writing so much more about TV all together. That being said, Mad…
Mad Men: 6×05 “The Flood” Recap
Pressure keeps building, more and more, until eventually it forces its way out, resulting in an outpour and uncontrollable flood. What am I talking about? The assassination of Martin Luther King was the last pressure needed to open the flood…