TV Review: Mad Men Series Finale – “Person to Person”

Note: I lost the time to review last week’s penultimate episode although many of my points of thought tie into this finale too, so consider this a double review of sorts Digging into any given episode of Mad Men can…

TV Review: Mad Men (7×12) – “Lost Horizon”

Mad Men opened its sixth season long ago with Don Draper reading Dante’s Inferno and that season served as slow boiling retribution for Don’s many failings and brought his story to its lowest point. Don has since bounced back, though…

TV Review: Mad Men (7×11) – “Time & Life”

If “The Forecast” was about looking towards the future for the characters that populate Mad Men, then “Time & Life” acts as a follow-up that shows the future smacking them in the face, and not the way they wanted it…

TV Review: Mad Men (7×10) – “The Forecast”

Last week on Mad Men, Don Draper came home to an empty apartment, and that evocative final image of him standing amidst the desolate white floor stands as both a metaphor for Don’s whole existence and a lead-in to the…

17 TV Show Premieres to Look Forward to This Spring

Remember when the Fall TV Season was the best part of the year? Well, premieres are now scattered throughout the year, and this upcoming spring seems especially awesome for TV. So much for enjoying the warmer weather because my TV watching schedule looks…

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…