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Tagged: Mad Men
Mid-Season Mad Men Studies: “And would it have been worth it, after all?”
I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white...
Mad Men Season Five Premiere Open Thread
According to Wikipedia (to which I had to turn to figure out when we were), Mad Men is, in the wake of a 1966 Kentucky-Duke all-white Final Four bout to play Texas Western and...
Anti-Heroics with a Side of Boredom
William Brafford wonders about the meaning behind the rise of the anti-hero in the television shows favored by certain audiences (and, not to point the finger at myself too much, by a certain writer). ...
Don Draper Studies II: Mad Men as Western
(This post contains spoilers for various seasons of Mad Men. Read at your own risk, but, I mean, it’s on DVD already, so go ahead and help out the Postal Service and that artist...
Don Draper Studies I: Shoring Fragments Against Ruins
(This post talks about all of Season 4 of Mad Men. Read at your own risk, but, I mean, it’s on DVD already, so go ahead and help out Netflix and the Postal Service.) Over...
Son of The Wire
Matt Yglesias says: What’s really depressing to me about the current TV landscape isn’t so much that we haven’t seen another Wire-quality show as it is that we haven’t even seen a serious effort...
Mad Men
This excellent Atlantic article on the show echoes a few criticisms first aired in an equally excellent Culture11 review last year. Unfortunately, the original article is lost to the Internets, but I found a...
