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Season Finale: Mad Men –“Shut the Door. Have a Seat.”
“Shut the Door” November 8th, 2009 “I’m not going…I’m just living elsewhere.” Every episode of television is a collection of scenes, individual set pieces designed to present a particular moment or to...
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Season Premiere: Mad Men –“Public Relations”
“Public Relations” July 25th, 2010 “It was going great until it wasn’t.” Mad Men has always been a series grounded in duality, logical since Dick Whitman’s double life represented the central conflict...
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Mad Men the Morning After: Critics Relate to “Public Relations”
Mad Men the Morning After: Critics Relate to “Public Relations” July 26th, 2010 When I was somewhat incredulous about why anyone even the least bit afraid of spoilers would read pre-air reviews of a...
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Mad Men –“Christmas Comes But Once a Year”
“Christmas Comes But Once a Year” August 1st, 2010 “I don’t hate Christmas – I hate this Christmas.” When Don Draper sits down to take part in a demonstration of a new form of customer research, he...
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Mad Men –“The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”
“The Chrysanthemum and the Sword” August 22nd, 2010 Ted, the Don Draper-equivalent over at rival agency CGC, is not in Don Draper’s league: he is neither visionary nor genius, and yet by virtue of his...
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Mad Men –“The Summer Man”
“The Summer Man” September 12th, 2010 “All he knows of the world is what you show him.” There has always been a disconnect between Don Draper’s external persona and his internal struggle, but this...
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Mad Men –“Hands and Knees”
“Hands and Knees” September 26th, 2010 “Everybody has bad dreams once in a while.” In a Twitter discussion, Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall had a discussion about the role of theme in Mad Men: to...
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Season Finale: Mad Men –“Tomorrowland”
“Tomorrowland” October 17th, 2010 “Are you kidding me?!” I’m extremely glad that Faye Miller actually said this during the episode, so I could pull quote it instead of saying itself myself. But,...
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Present and Past: “The Phantom” and Mad Men Season 5 in Review
“The Phantom” June 10th, 2012 “This may be our last chance.” I was having a conversation with some friends the other night, and we were discussing the character of Paul Kinsey. My colleague Alyx...
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