July 26th, 2010

The Mad Men File


The essential milieu of Mad Men is not all that admirable.

Mad Men Returns: The ’60s Advertising Drama Is A Time Tunnel To The Present
8/14/09

Mad Men: “Out of Town”: Season 3 Opener Satisfying If Not Scintillating
8/18/09

Mad Men: “Love Among the Ruins” — HuffPost Review
8/24/09

Mad Men: “My Old Kentucky Home” — HuffPost Review
8/31/09

Mad Men: “The Arrangements” — HuffPost Review
9/7/09

Mad Men: “The Fog” — HuffPost Review
9/14/09

Mad Men‘s Emmy Triumph Comes As “Guy Walks Into An Advertising Agency” — HuffPost Review
9/21/09

Mad Men: “Seven Twenty Three” — HuffPost Review
9/28/09

Mad Men: “Souvenir” — HuffPost Review
10/5/09


A standard television test pattern from the 1960s, which TV stations around the country broadcast overnight while programming was off the air.

Mad Men: “Wee Small Hours” — HuffPost Review
10/12/09

Mad Men: “The Color Blue” — HuffPost Review
10/19/09

Mad Men: “The Gypsy and the Hobo” — HuffPost Review
10/26/09

It’s November 22, 1963 On Mad Men: HuffPost Review
11/2/09

Mad Men‘s Sensational Season Finale — HuffPost Review
11/9/09

Mad Men: Three Seasons On and Looking Forward
11/21/09

North by Northwest‘s 50th Anniversary Edition: Enduring Appeal and the Mad Men Factor
12/2/09

Mad Men Sweeps the Latest Awards and Loses A Key Character
1/27/10

Mad Men: The Streak Continues
2/22/10

Mad Men Returns With “Public Relations,” In More Ways Than One: Who IS Don Draper?
7/26/10

Mad Men Review: “Christmas Comes But Once A Year,” Except for These Three Wise Guys
8/3/10

Mad Men Review: “The Good News” Is Sad Yet Very Good
8/9/10

Mad Men Review: “The Rejected” Is A Routine Episode, But Betty Draper Has Joined The X-Men!
8/18/10

Mad Men Review: Another Famous Anthropological Study
8/25/10

Mad Men Makes The All-Time Television Pantheon and Unspools Another Fine Episode
9/1/10

Mad Men: “The Suitcase” Is Tougher Than Sonny Liston
9/6/2010

Mad Men: “The Summer Man” Is Clearing His Head
9/13/2010

Mad Men: “The Beautiful Girls” Revolve Around the Not So Beautiful Men and the Not So Beautiful Biz
9/20/2010

Mad Men: “Do You Want To Know A Secret?” (And Really Suspend Your Disbelief?)
10/1/2010

Mad Men: Breach One “Chinese Wall” and You Just Want To Breach Another One An Hour Later
10/6/2010

Mad Men: Nothing Like A Little Lemonade To Flush the Smoke From One’s Eyes
10/12/2010

Mad Men‘s Surprising Yet Logical Finale: Don Draper Goes All Cali in “Tomorrowland”
10/20/2010

Mad Men for Christmas
12/23/2010

Mad About Mad Men: Will It Equal West Wing‘s Mark?
4/14/2011

Mad Men‘s Feat
9/28/2011

Mad Men (Finally) Returns: Worth the Wait?
3/27/2012

Mad Men: Whose Side Is Time On, Anyway?
4/3/2012

Mad Men‘s Master Class in American Studies Rolls on to Some Mystery Dates
4/10/2012

Mad Men: Rounding Some Hairpin Plot Curves
4/17/2012

Mad Men: Wibbley-Wobbley, Timey-Wimey, Trippy-Wippy (And Peggy Olson Is No Dana Scully)
4/24/2012

Mad Men: To The Moon! (And Crashing Back Again)
5/1/2012

Mad Men: Rejecting Advertising, Or, Don Draper Meets Acid Rock, Pop Buddhism, and an Independent Wife
5/8/2012

Mad Men: Danger! Slippery When Soapy (Especially in Dark Shadows)
5/15/2012

Mad Men: A Great Leaper Forward? Joan, Jag, Don’s Return To Advertising (And Other Treks)
5/23/2012

Mad Men: Controversy as Joan Lowers Herself To Rise and Peggy Exits Anticlimactically (as SCDP Gets Its Halo Client)
5/30/2012

Mad Men: The Anvil Has Landed
6/6/2012


You only live twice.

Looking Forward From Mad Men‘s Meandering Season 5: You Only Live Twice (One Can Only Hope)
6/13/2012

Mad Men: On the Comeback Trail in a Changing Cultural Landscape
4/10/2013

Gale Force Winds of History Hit Mad Men, Which Still Finds the Time for Some Obvious Practical Lessons
4/15/2013

Mad Men: Are You Not Entertained?
April 23, 2013

Mad Men Meets the Assassination of Martin Luther King
April 29, 2013


Mad Men Gets a Bounce After Shaking Things Up

May 8, 2013

Mad Men‘s Transitional “Plan,” Ironic or Not
May 14, 2013

Mad Men: “Chevy Is Spelled Wrong!”
May 20, 2013

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