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Interview with Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner
In celebration of the beginning of Season 3, here is a link to an interview with Matthew Weiner, writer of the television series Mad Men (my favorite show of all time). Below are two of the most...
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Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Win? The End of Friday Nig …
You’ve got to hand it to Heather Havrilesky. She had the guts in The NY Times Magazine to expose one of the most egregious cultural travesties currently being foisted on the American public. I’m...
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The Subtle Horror of Mad Men
Mad Men is a horror series. There… I said it. I didn’t believe this until recently. My impression was that it was a dark and brooding drama about the desperate and horny realities of life. This was...
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Another Week Ends: Successful Blueprints, Redemptive Politicians, …
1. This is embarrassing to admit. As much as I love The Replacements, it is The Wilson Quarterly that has truly been rocking my world this past week. Two articles in particular, both from their Spring...
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The Final Confession of Donald Draper
Spoilers, people, spoilers. “I broke all my vows. I scandalized my child. I took another man’s name and made nothing of it.” Thus goes the bottoming out we’ve been waiting for these past 7-8 years from...
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The Gypsy and the Hobo: Mad Men Ep. 11
(Warning: Mad Men spoiler alerts ahead—if you aren’t caught up on the last few weeks of Season 3, and don’t want to be, don’t read this post!) “Don, open the drawer or I will.” ….holy $%@&! This is...
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"Mad Men" Season Premiere Tonight
A thoughtful interview with Mad Men creator and writer Matthew Weiner with some insights into what to expect this season. Season four begins as an almost brand new show. There is a new ad agency, a new...
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Forgiving Don Draper
A laudably contrarian view of Mad Men appeared in the recent issue of The New York Review of Books by Daniel Mendelsohn, “The Mad Men Account,” raising a number of important questions before making a...
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