Basket of Kisses

Guest post by Nathaniel R: Mad Men at the Movies ran at The Film Experience and is being posted here for the first time since it ran oh, so long ago. Mad Men at the Movies investigates the film references in the Emmy winning series. Episode 2.3 “The Benefactor” Two film moments in this episode. [...]

By now you’ve probably heard that Matt Weiner has let known the title of Episode 1 of Season 5.  It is called A Little Kiss.   Now, a kiss may be just a kiss, but now  MM fans are wondering who’s giving and who’s receiving this little endearment. The title could be very deceptive –Will [...]

Oops, did it again, had a busy Saturday afternoon followed by a rip-roarin’ Saturday night and forgot to leave this thread for Sunday morning. I hope you enjoy a slightly delayed edition. Today’s AMC re-runs of Mad Men were The Fog, Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency, and Seven Twenty Three. The obvious thing these [...]

This post was inspired by a comment made by Smiler G (http://www.lippsisters.com/2011/04/26/flashbacks-2/).  During the past four seasons, Mad Men has covered many real world events, such as the 1960 Election, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the bombing of 6th Street Baptist Church bombing in Alabama, the Kennedy Assassination, and other real world events. What event(s) would [...]

Today’s Mad Men episodes airing on AMC are Love Among the Ruins, My Old Kentucky Home, and The Arrangements. This is a pretty dark period in the series. These are also three very important episodes for Peggy. So: What’s your favorite really dark moment of Mad Men? What’s your favorite Peggy scene?

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.

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 [...]

Good morning! AMC airs Mad Men re-runs every Sunday. Today’s episodes are Six Month Leave, The Inheritance, and The Jet Set. Each of these episodes contains a journey (or more than one). None are confined to Sterling Cooper and the Draper residence and other standard sets. SML takes us out to an after-hours club, The [...]

Finally! Mad Men Season 5 will premiere Sunday, March 25, 2012. Episode 501 will be two hours long and run from 9 to 11pm Eastern time. Subsequent episodes will run from 10 to 11 Eastern. Season 2 of The Killing premieres Sunday, April 1, with a two-hour episode airing from 8 to 10 Eastern. The [...]

So Basketcases, you know that we (okay I) bit at a false link and incorrectly and unsubstantiatedly (yes I make up words) told you that the Season 5 premiere date was March 16th. And now you’re probably seeing in places other than this lovely blog of ours that the Season 5 premiere date is March [...]

On Sundays we like to discuss the episodes of Mad Men aired by AMC. Today those episodes were Maidenform, The Gold Violin, and A Night to Remember. I’m struck by the parallel between Sal’s secret in the Gold Violin, and the notion of confession as illustrated by the relationship between Peggy and Father Gil in [...]

At some point in my Southern California teen years, a guy on a field trip told my class what the term “silver screen” meant. In the early days of motion pictures, he said, the screens onto which films were projected were often literally silver: a reflective (often aluminum) coating helped fabric screens catch the low-power [...]