Basket of Kisses

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?

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 [...]

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 [...]

Today we’re revisiting the S3 finale. Matt was so protective of this episode that not a single screener was released to the press. We watched this for the first time with along with all of you, and live with about 150 fans at our party in NYC. And Michael Gladis was in the house. It [...]

Every Sunday, AMC has been showing Mad Men episodes, and we’ve spent the week revisiting past posts about those same episodes. It took us weeks (weeks!) to straighten out whether this episode was The Grown-Ups or The Grownups or The Grown-ups, but those days are behind us. This is a HUGE revisit! Enjoy! First, some [...]

On Sundays (when they feel like it), AMC reruns Mad Men, and we discuss the aired episodes in the days following. Here’s our revisit to The Gypsy and the Hobo. And by the way, some of these old posts have broken illustrations, which come from the time we had to restore the entire site from [...]

Mad Men reruns on AMC on Sunday mornings, and we revisit each episode the following week. My initial reaction was a rush of thoughts about how much happened in The Color Blue. Thoughts on Don and younger brothers. B. Cooper knows which loaded gun is a red herring and which isn’t. You can’t frame a [...]

Oops! I forgot the open thread in time for the airing of The Color Blue and The Gypsy and the Hobo. Mea culpa. Discuss!

AMC is again showing Mad Men reruns and we are again revisiting past posts. Today it’s Wee Small Hours. Let’s start with my first impressions of the title and what happens overall. My first reaction to this episode was not entirely positive. Roberta thought Don was chasing the magic. Matt Maul notices a significant symbol. [...]