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MAD MEN S06E03–4 “The Collaborators” & “To Have and to Hold”
A review of MAD MEN 6×03, “The Collaborators,” and 6×04, “To Have and To Hold” Continue reading
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MAD MEN S06E01-2 (TV Review) “The Doorway”
A review of the Season 6 premiere of MAD MEN, “The Doorway.” Continue reading
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MAD MEN S05E11–12 (TV Review)
Our latest two episodes of Mad Men each feature a major character leaving Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. One leaves in a considerably more permanent fashion than the other, but I’d still be hard pressed to say which departure is sadder. Continue reading
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MAD MEN S05E09-10 (TV Review)
I had, this week, a moment of clarity about Mad Men: it was the realization that none of these people—not a single goddamned one of them—will ever, ever be happy. Continue reading
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MAD MEN S05E07-08 (TV Review)
For Don and Roger, recklessly surrendering a successful career to search for uncertain happiness and self-fulfillment would have been almost unthinkable. But Megan is not of their generations: she’s our first major Baby Boomer character, born into the post-war security the previous generations paid for (as her father points out). She has the luxury to pursue her dreams, and she has the awareness of how neglecting the ideas of happiness and self-fulfillment has made so many of the previous generation miserable. Continue reading
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MAD MEN S05E06 (TV Review)
“Far Away Places” plays out in three short stories, occurring simultaneously, in which characters grapple with the tentative solidity of their own lives, the slippery hold they have on who they are and what is important to them, and the changing, sometimes elusive nature of reality. Continue reading
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MAD MEN S05E05 (TV Review)
A few thoughts about Mad Men 5×06, and about The Short and Happy Life of Peter Campbell. Continue reading
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MAD MEN S05E04 (TV Review)
I’ve commented several times already on how Mad Men is about the moment when white, middle-class America awakens from that squeaky-clean, all-white, suburban fantasy of itself. This season is the transition point where the dark undercurrent that has always run beneath that fairy tale begins to overwhelm it. Continue reading
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MAD MEN—S05E03 (TV Review)
“When is everything going to get back to normal?” Roger asks Don towards the end of the episode. The answer, of course, is never: history is moving as quickly as it has ever moved, and the generational shifts have never been stronger. Normal, as Roger understands it, is officially a thing of the past. Continue reading
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MAD MEN – S05E01-02 (TV Review)
The white men have ruled the world of Mad Men all along, and their entire way of life has been built on racial injustice and the subjugation of women, in ways they’ve never even questioned. But Megan is not going to accept Betty’s role, and the “negroes” in the lobby are not going to take “no” for an answer. Change won’t come quickly, but it is coming. Continue reading
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