The year is 1960. Sorry, 2022. Three men who are mad about Mad Men are smoking herbal cigarettes and getting a little chatty about one of the greatest television dramas of all time. We begin with the show’s pilot, of course, titled…
Twelve of the Most Momentous Lines in “Mad Men” History
With just two and a half weeks left of 2015, reminiscence is nearly involuntary. We celebrate with joy the triumphs of film and television, recalling directorial debuts that made our cheeks hurt from smiling or the long-overdue recognition our favorite…
Ally’s Movie Review: Red Knot
Red Knot takes a relationship that’s lost it’s spark, puts it into an icy situation, and let’s their partnership unravel before us, trapped in a sinking ship of their own making. Young and newly married and living in New York,…
TV Review: AMC’s Mad Men 7×7, “Waterloo”
“She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She was an astronaut.” – Bertram Cooper (d. 1969) There is something to be said for a man that came from an older…
TV Review: AMC’s Mad Men 7×6, “The Strategy”
“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…