Mad Men Season 6 Finale… Symbolic death and uncertain rebirth…
Mad Men Season 6 Episode 8: This is Your Brain… on Drugs (“The Crash”)
Cagey Cutler, Drugged Draper, and Chevy driving SCDPCGC mad…
Mad Men Season 6 Episode 4: To Have and to Hold… While Letting Go
Mad Men’s “To Have and to Hold” – hanging on to what they can, while they can.
Mad Men Season 6 Episode 3: The Collaborators
Mad Men’s Season 6 Episode 3 highlights uneasy alliances in “The Collaborators.”
Mad Men Season 6 Premiere: “The Doorway” to Hell or Stairway to Heaven?
Mad Men’s Season 6 Opener. The Doorway to… ???
Mad Men Season 5 Episode 13 (Finale): The Phantom
Guilt? Grief? The casualties of corporate war? If Lane Pryce is the most obvious and pivotal phantom in the finale of Season 5’s Mad Men, he isn’t the only one. In the aftermath of his suicide, our major characters are each grappling with the price of success, and experiencing his death differently, along with a […]
Mad Men Season 5 Episode 10 Christmas Waltz
Christmas Waltz? Some fancy footwork, maybe. But who’s doing the dancing? No tender two-step for Megan and Don. She seems peeved, and Don is… Well, what and where exactly is Don these days? He’s not in sync with his winsome wife – or himself. He’s out of sorts, uninspired, and feeling attacked. Counter culture is […]
Return to the Dark Side: Mad Men Season 5 Episode 9 (Dark Shadows)
Barnabas Collins? He doesn’t make an appearance, but “Dark Shadows” is an apt title for Episode 9 of Mad Men as our favorite characters do battle with their own demons – and lose. I’ll give the Ray of Light Award to Megan, for her maturing mastery of managing between a rock and a hard place, […]
Mad Men Season 5 Episode 8: Lady Lazarus (Megan Rising?)
If Megan is Lady Lazarus in Mad Men’s Episode 8, does she rise from the brink of metaphorical death of her dream to be an actress? If Don is the eternal Phoenix rising from the ashes, is Lazarus also a reference to his literal brush with death as the SCDP elevator doors open, and he […]
Mad Men Season 5 Episode 7 (At the Codfish Ball)
Mother Mary Comes to Me? Okay then. Maman Marie is a cool cucumber and a hot number – en même temps! Episode 7 of Mad Men offers an inside look at Megan’s mother and father, their strained relationship, and Don’s father-daughter bond with Sally as she’s growing up bit by bit. Even Peggy’s in on […]