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Mad Men Season Four, Episode 13 – Tomorrowland: A Review
3rd December 2010 | 8 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
So farewell Mad Men, you'll no doubt look much different when we meet again - with Sky having outbid the BBC for you, we'll have to get used to putting up with unwanted ad breaks when you come back next year. But at least we got a cheerful send-off.
At least I think it was a cheerful send-off - it all felt a bit muted and uncertain really (Mad Men's hardly... -
Mad Men Season 4, Episode 12 – Blowing Smoke: A Review
2nd December 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
The penultimate episode of the season and all hell is breaking out at SCDP, much like it did about this point in previous seasons. With news about Lucky Strike leaving getting out, the future for the agency is looking increasingly bleak. Although I think we can assume that the agency will survive in some form or another - after all what's the point of a workplace-based show if the characters...
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Mad Men Season 4, Episode 10 – Hands and Knees: A Review
16th November 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
After last week's morbid hi-jinx, it was time for a much more plot driven episode of Mad Men, especially as we're rapidly approaching the end of the season and the finale's events need to be set in motion. The odd thing about Mad Men is that the more eventful an episode is, the less interesting it is to write about and analyse - it may bore some viewers rigid but...
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Mad Men Season 4, Episode 9 – The Beautiful Girls: A Review
8th November 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Poor Miss Blankenship! That cataracts operation was unfortunately a bit of a waste of time and money it seems. The death of Don's secretary may well be this season's lawnmower incident, being that it was an unpleasant event that was later wrung by the writers (and the other SCDP staff) for laughs, fortunately this was a much less gory affair, with the longtime Sterling Cooper employee keeling over at her...
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Mad Men Series 4, Episode 8 – The Summer Man: A Review
1st November 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Don Draper may be an advertising genius, but he's a terrible writer if his journal is anything to go by. I don't think anybody will be rushing to publish his memoirs as a novelty book just in time for the Christmas market (incidentally, I wonder if he was inspired to keep a journal by discovering Roger’s efforts in last week’s episode?). There may have been a few character details sprinkled...
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Mad Men Season 4, Episode 5 – The Chrysanthemum and The Sword: A Review
8th October 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Betty Francis is history's greatest monster!
Maybe that's going a bit far, but I think we can all agree that she's a ghastly human being, what with her perma-scowl, her passive aggressiveness and the not-so passive aggressive child abuse. Of course Sally isn’t the easiest of kids to handle, particularly not in this week’s episode where she occupied herself with an impromptu hair cut... and masturbating (which is making me shudder... -
Mad Men Season Four, Episode Two – Christmas Comes But Once A Year: A Review
17th September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
With Thanksgiving out of the way, Christmas is looming on the horizon for the staff of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (hereafter referred to as SCDP) and, predictably the booze is flowing freely. This being despite the intervention of Lane, whose fretting about the cost of the misuse of office supplies has lead to a downgrading the Christmas party, and the arrival of Freddy Rumsen, now sixteen months sober, and considerably...
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Mad Men Season Four, Episode One – Public Relations: A Review
10th September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
And we're back, much sooner than expected thanks to those kind folks at BBC 4 who decided to bring the screening of this season forward by a few months.
Having recapped the last season for this site, I thought I'd do the same again for this one. Of course if there's one thing the internet isn't short on it's articles about Mad Men, but having enjoyed being able to pick apart... -
Mad Men Series 3, Episode 13 – Shut the Door, Have a Seat: A Review
15th April 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Well, that’s your lot, series three has come to an end. But what an end! Despite some dips in quality during its run (compared to the first couple of series at least), the series went out with a bang.
The episode was definitely Mad Men at its most purposeful and streamlined, as instead of getting the usual relaxed mix of glacially paced subplots, everything was based around Don. And it seems... -
Mad Men, Series 3 Episode 12 – The Grown-Ups: A Review
8th April 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
There’s one word that I think sums up this episode of Mad Men, and that word is boxes - a pretty mundane thing to use for an analysis but bear with me. From the many shots of the characters watching the news on television, to the off-screen coffin of President Kennedy, and even Betty and Henry Francis’ boxy looking cars when they met up at the end of the episode,...
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