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…
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 7×3, “Field Trip”
The first commercial break in this week’s episode of Mad Men did not come until 18 minutes in. For television, that is an impressive amount of time. For a series that does not rely on action and really had nothing…
TV Review: AMC’s Mad Men 7×2, “A Day’s Work”
Things (and people) were really moving around this week. Last week’s episode may have been a nice setup for this season, providing us some perspective on who is where and how Don and SC&P are working, while being separated from…