This one is a classic Don Draper pose, rendered by César Moreno. It’s big, so click through for the whole experience.
Matthew Weiner revealed Mad Men’s Season 5 premiere is titled “A Little Kiss” and teased people about its possible meaning. Jon Hamm tweaked the critics with premiere spoilers while discussing Don, Megan and Peggy.
In anticipation of Season 5 (and what isn’t?), Mad Men cast members name their favorite episodes.
AMC has pics of the Mad Men cast at the Television Critics’ Association winter party. [Is there a spoiler in those pics? Hmmm... -K]
Matt also was honored with the 2012 NATPE Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Award. At a NATPE Q & A he talked about HBO passing on Mad Men, capturing real life, and women in the workplace. After the awards gala, he talked about his inspirations for the show. The awards ceremony included a video with comedic touches from Jon Hamm and Breaking Bad showrunner Vince Gilligan.
Send a Hamm-O-Gram for Valentine’s Day. [It will compensate for when the rye and phenobarbital impairs your performance. -K]
Christina Hendricks is the new voice of Baskin-Robbins ice cream. We have pics and pics of CH supporting husband Geoffrey Arend at the Sundance Film Festival, where she dished about coming home to find him rocking the platform boots.
Mad Men was denied a fourth straight Producers Guild Award.
Caity Lotz (Stephanie) has signed with the UTA talent agency, which is probably a big deal for her career.
Jon Bernthal, who currently plays Shane on The Walking Dead, is in early conversations to lead Frank Darabont’s new show, L.A. Noir. Continue reading »
Downton Abbey: Season 2, Episode 3 – The Contrary ContrariansJan 25, 2012 It is 1918 and evidently everyone’s gotten into the swing of running a convalescent home, because there’s no more kvetching or eye-rolling coming from the Crawley gang. Lady Edith has found her stride. She’s putting on a concert and wants archenemy Mary to participate. This is a little like Michele Bachman and Obama doing a [...] |
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Movie Review: Swedish AutoJan 24, 2012 Swedish Auto (2006) 5/10 Lonely, isolated auto mechanic Carter (Lukas Haas) meets lonely, isolated diner waitress Darla (January Jones). One time, Arthur and I sat down to watch The Gay Divorcee. Arthur and I love Fred and Ginger, but it became increasingly intolerable to realize the “romantic” plot had to do with Fred stalking Ginger [...] |
Oscar Nomination Open ThreadJan 24, 2012 I took down the post I had scheduled for this morning because I thought we’d all prefer this! Jump in! Best Picture Nominees: “The Artist” Thomas Langmann, Producer “The Descendants” Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers “Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close” Scott Rudin, Producer “The Help” Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, [...] |
Triple Double Giveaway Contest!Jan 23, 2012 Smart Pop Books have provided us with three copies of The Unofficial Mad Men Cookbook for our readers. I’m especially pleased to tell you that this giveaway is open to U.S. and Canada residents! I know you Canadians often get left out of these things, so yay. That’s the triple part. The double part is, [...] |
Sunday Open ThreadJan 22, 2012 Today’s episodes are The Mountain King, Meditations in an Emergency, and Out of Town. I find a common thread of eroticism: Sarah Beth’s longing for a younger man, Betty’s fling in a bar, Sal’s bellhop. Discuss eroticism and sexuality in Mad Men (or anything else): The floor is wide open. |
Downton Abbey Love: Nostalgia for a Bygone Class System? Or Refuge from TMI?Jan 20, 2012 In today’s Slate, Katie Roiphe discusses the paradoxical popularity of Downton Abbey given the current economic meltdown and the subsequent discontent of the 99%: One might wonder why, at the precise moment that we are condemning class divides in this country, so many of us would develop a passion for a show like Downton Abbey; why suddenly [...] |
Basket of News, Jan. 14-20, 2011Jan 20, 2012 Matthew Weiner talked to Alan Sepinwall about Season 5, with more nuggets at Collider and some extra flourishes at THR. That got Jon Hamm to open up a bit at Vulture, including more on his directorial debut. The Mad Men cast toasted the upcoming season at an event with an interesting tagline. The MM Season [...] |
Why We May Have Seen the Last of JoanJan 18, 2012 Now that season 5 of Mad Men is finally within our sights (whew!), the question that keeps popping up in my mind is, “Whither Joan?” Yeah, I made a complete clown-nose of myself before Tomorrowland, insisting that Joan went through with the abortion because nothing else made sense for her. After all, this was Roger’s [...] |
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Downton Abbey: Season 2, Episode 2 – Who’s the boss?Jan 17, 2012 Mary and Matthew have run away for a romantic sojourn on the shores of the Bosphorus—oh, wait. That’s just a Viking River cruise commercial. Seriously, who wants to travel with Vikings? The pressure to rape and plunder must be overwhelming. SPOILERS AFTER THE CUT!! |
Hell on Wheels Episode 110: God of ChaosJan 15, 2012 Brother! Choose hate. The Season 1 finale of Hell on Wheels packed a wallop. Maybe it wasn’t as shocking as the “mid-season finale” of The Walking Dead but, of the nine major players listed on AMC’s cast page, four are in a very different place than I expected them to be at the beginning of [...] |








