Basket of Kisses

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 [...]

I was double-checking Mad Men Season 2‘s The Mountain King for something entirely unrelated, and I noticed something. Betty is signing Don’s name to a check, goes for a cigarette, realizes she’s out, and heads upstairs for more. That’s when she catches Sally smoking and all hell breaks loose. She goes for a cigarette, and [...]

Thanks for stopping by during our Holiday Season Fundraiser. I cannot believe 2011 is almost over–and not a single new Mad Men episode. It’s a wonder we survived. As we are in the thick of the thickening season and all its festivities, I thought it would be fun to take a look at some memorable [...]

Hello! It’s our next installment of Mad Through the Seasons, all part of our Holiday Season Fundraiser. Today we honor Sal, for whom we heartbreakingly only have three season’s worth of posts to pick through. Please to enjoy! Season 1 Between Seasons 1 and 2 I wrote a piece on Sal–it’s interesting to read the [...]

Welcome to another Mad Through the Seasons edition of our Holiday Season Fundraiser. We’ll revisit one post per season. This is Don Draper we’re talking about, and so that in itself was quite a feat! Season 1; Rachel This is not just a crush–he is crushed by her. Don is thinking about Rachel as a [...]

Occasionally on Mad Men, I am not sure if I’m supposed to like certain characters or not. Betty’s sister-in-law Judy is a good example. Betty sometimes acted as if Judy was manipulative, but I never saw Judy act anything but helpful and sweet, and in a very genuine way. So I don’t know if it [...]

All month is our Basket of Kisses Beauty Makeover Holiday Season Fundraiser! If you enjoy our blog, please consider a donation. In our newest feature, Mad Through the Seasons, we’re playing with different themes, characters, things that appear in each of the four seasons. We’re gathering old posts that fit the theme, or go back [...]

Welcome to our next installation of our Basket of Kisses Beauty Makeover Holiday Season Fundraiser! We thought we would put the fun in fundraiser by approaching different characters, scenarios or themes via revisits to old posts, one per season. So today we’re taking a look at the four season openers: S1 Smoke Gets in Your [...]

November 1,2011. I had a funny experience today.  While at a favorite antique shop today with my darling mother, I was taking in all the nostalgia around me when my eyes fell on a strangely familiar doll.  It had up-swept blond hair,  and a luxuriant, strapless pale blue brocade gown. “That doll looks like Betty [...]

Guest post by Nathaniel R: Mad Men at the Movies ran at The Film Experience and is being posted here in conjunction with re-airings of episodes. Mad Men @ The Movies looks at the many film references in the Emmy winning series. Episode 2.2 “Flight 1″ The staff of Sterling Cooper have reluctantly trekked out [...]

We continue looking back at posts on the episodes AMC has been marathoning on Sunday mornings: B. Cooper gives us one of his legendary Not-so-live bloggings on the episode. Deb and I each have our own little observation. It’s the small stuff, y’know? I look at the cycles (ahem) Betty has experienced that were her [...]

Every Sunday morning, AMC airs three episodes of Mad Men. Every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, we revisit our favorite posts about those three episodes. Today it’s The Mountain King, episode 2.12. This is an intense episode. We talk about rape and about how Joan deals with it. B. Cooper compares Joan’s rape to one that [...]