Mad Men

What is this thing you call “Breaking Bad”?

Russell Saunders September 30, 2013

There are still unifying forces in American popular culture. Don't believe me? Try missing a...

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Don Draper’s Purgatorio

J.L. Wall August 1, 2013

"Mad Men" isn't stagnating -- it's rejecting easy character arcs.

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Mid-Season Mad Men Studies: “And would it have been worth it, after all?”

J.L. Wall May 3, 2012

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled....

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Mad Men Season Five Premiere Open Thread

J.L. Wall March 27, 2012

According to Wikipedia (to which I had to turn to figure out when we were), Mad Men...

Anti-Heroics with a Side of Boredom

Anti-Heroics with a Side of Boredom

J.L. Wall October 30, 2011

William Brafford wonders about the meaning behind the rise of the anti-hero in the television shows favored...

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Don Draper Studies II: Mad Men as Western

J.L. Wall September 23, 2011

(This post contains spoilers for various seasons of Mad Men. Read at your own risk, but, I...

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Don Draper Studies I: Shoring Fragments Against Ruins

J.L. Wall September 7, 2011

(This post talks about all of Season 4 of Mad Men. Read at your own risk, but,...

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Son of The Wire

Will November 18, 2009

Matt Yglesias says: What’s really depressing to me about the current TV landscape isn’t so much that...

Mad Men

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Mad Men

Will October 22, 2009

This excellent Atlantic article on the show echoes a few criticisms first aired in an equally excellent...

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