Living Like There’s No Tomorrow: Mad Men Series Finale

After tonight’s series finale, we will know everything there is to know about Mad Men, and we will never need to watch the show again. At least, that’s how it’ll feel for the show’s other millions of viewers.

Mad Men Season 7 Episode 8: Severance for the Life Unlived

Don’t read the following if you did not watch Mad Men’s premiere on April 5, 2015! Sunday night’s Mad Men showed us the Don Draper we know and love. It also showed us that The Muppets had a legitimate influence on fashion in the early 1970s.

Megan Draper: Modern Life and Style in a Coral Shift Dress

Megan Calvet Draper is one of the best parts of Mad Men, and it’s not because she’s a beautiful, leggy brunette (though those qualities certainly don’t take away from someone being the “best”). Megan is intelligent, well-read, and well-cultured. For these reasons and others, she is one of Mad Men’s first representations of a truly […]

Mad Men: A Little Kiss Before Season 7 Part 2

Mad Men’s fifth season started with “A Little Kiss,” a 90 minute, two-part episode. This episode is supremely fun, based around a relatively simplistic premise: Don’s wife decides to throw him a surprise birthday party.

Directing Mad Men: Bianchi, Feig, and von Sherler Mayer

(If this article seems out of context, check out its introduction to get grounded in what’s going on. Note: article below may contain spoilers about Mad Men!) These three episodes are the first instances of my marathon where the director of each episode was individualized. Rather than writing one post per director, I decided to […]

The End is in The Beginning

It’s been said by many famous writers that the end is in the beginning. Generally, I would have to agree: it is a great construct for artful plot, foreshadow and thematic consistency in many works of fiction (literature, TV, film). We love it when our fiction is a perfect set of Russian nesting dolls, a […]

Directing Mad Men: Alan Taylor

(If this article seems out of context, check out its introduction to get grounded in what’s going on. Note: article below may contain spoilers about Mad Men!) Alan Taylor is a well-versed director in film and television alike. He has directed for a lot of other excellent premium cable shows, such as The Sopranos, Boardwalk […]

Death is Not the End: Mad Men’s Series Finale

Note: This article contains various, vague “spoilers” for the following shows: Mad Men, Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, The Wire, Game of Thrones, True Blood, House of Cards, The Walking Dead, Boardwalk Empire. Don’t click beyond the jump if you haven’t watched TV in the past 15 years! Mad Men is ending in 2015, and like […]

Mad Men Season 6 Predictions (1967)

Typically, I like to leave predictions of the future to the reliable experts (the Mayans, Harold Camping, Miss Cleo, etc.). But I am human (unlike the aforementioned experts) and I tend to get impatient, especially when my favorite show has been off the air for over eight months. Aside from vivid fantasies of the what […]

5 Reasons to Watch Downton Abbey if You’re a Mad Men Fan

Recently, I have become quite obsessed with Downton Abbey. Most of the time, my television viewing acts as a time filler between Mad Men seasons (if you couldn’t already tell). Yet Downton Abbey wore me down in the first episode, creating a space in my heart comparable to that of Mad Men’s. It took me […]