Mad Men Rundown: Episode 10, "The Inheritance" This week's installment has little Sterling-Cooper stuff and tons of richly layered, sad, prickly family issues dealing with difficult moms, sick dads, unknown heirs and lonely little boys. We don't see too see much of our main man, Don Draper, and I longed for more Joan, Roger and Peggy, but this episode is just as sad, disturbing and well-written as any of them.
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As is often the case with Mad Men, the title of the episode is perfect. This week's installment has little Sterling-Cooper stuff and tons of richly layered, sad, prickly family issues dealing with difficult moms, sick dads, unknown heirs and lonely little boys. We don't see too much of our main man, Don Draper, this week, and I longed for more Joan, Roger and Peggy, but this episode is just as sad, disturbing and well-written as any of them.
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Love It or Hate It? The Drapers' Headboard Whenever there's a scene in Mad Men involving the Drapers' bedroom, my eyes are always drawn to their tufted velvet headboard. Its color, texture, and tufting are over-the-top feminine, and reflect nothing of Don's removed masculinity.
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Whenever there's a scene in Mad Men involving the Drapers' bedroom, my eyes are always drawn to their tufted velvet headboard. Its color, texture, and tufting are over-the-top feminine, and reflect nothing of Don's removed masculinity. But maybe that's the point of this headboard — to reflect how removed Don Draper is from his home and its contents and inhabitants.
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Mad Men Rundown: Episode Nine, "Six Month Leave" Any Mad Men episode with a lot of Roger Sterling in it is going to be among my favorites, and that's a big reason why this first new episode after the show's big Emmy wins did not disappoint.
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Any Mad Men episode with a lot of Roger Sterling in it is going to be among my favorites and that's a big reason why this first new episode after the show's big Emmy wins did not disappoint. There's a moment at a gambling club when a young woman approaches Roger and Don and asks if they're winners. His response is classic Roger: "Uh, losers tonight but winners in general."
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At the beginning of last night's episode of Mad Men, the team plots how they can beat out other agencies by winning the yearly blood drive. Their tactic is more competitive than charity-driven (Don suggests they hire mail boys and elevator operators and pay them to donate blood and pretend to be part of the ad team), but it got me thinking about how certain charity efforts or drives can become competitive in the workplace. Do you donate funds to (or participate in) office-sponsored runs or donation drives?
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If you were thinking of picking up either Mad Men or Breaking Bad after their big Emmy wins on Sunday, AMC is making it easy. Over the next week, they're rerunning a big chunk of Mad Men and all of Breaking Bad in two marathon sessions.
The first comes tonight starting at 4 p.m.
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Caught wind of this yet, Mad Men fans? You are in for a fantastic treat. New York-based illustrator Dyna Moe has created a series of images depicting Mad Men characters and scenes which you can download as wallpaper, or buy certain prints of here.
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The recent A Night to Remember episode of Mad Men featured a serious post dinner party meltdown from the perfect on the outside, tormented on the inside, housewife Betty.
Betty's fit was a long time coming (what with Don cheating on her and treating her like a child), but the mom in me empathized with her reaction the next morning.
She sat at the breakfast table with her two little ones, smoking a cigarette (it couldn't have been 8 a.m.
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