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  • The Movie Cure

    The Movie Cure

    Everybody likes to go to the movies when they’re sad. – Bobby Draper, The Flood He’s very young, but Bobby Draper is right: there’s nothing like a good movie when you’re wrecked. The great gift of the movies is oblivion. Roger Ebert once said, “If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours [...]

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  • Where were you when you heard?

    Where were you when you heard?

    We’ve seen our characters in the act of hearing tragic national news. I think many of us have joked that Peggy and Duck are among that select group of people who will never be able to answer the “Where were you when you heard?” question. This time Peggy has a much more respectable answer. Peggy [...]

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  • Fan Art Thursday 5/2/13  'Paper Mad Men' by Eadgery

    Fan Art Thursday 5/2/13 ‘Paper Mad Men’ by Eadgery

    Here’s ‘Paper Mad Men’ by Eadgery ;a wonderful mash-up of Mad Men with the Disney short “Paperman” — you just know the girl in the short would  have eyed Don a little (as least a few years ago)!  Heck, now I want to see a whole Mad Men cartoon!

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  • At the Circus

    At the Circus

    We all know it by now: In To Have and To Hold, Joan said she had made reservations at Le Cirque…six years before they opened. The Goof Heard ‘Round the World: It made the front of the New York Post! Regardless, Joan and Kate never did go to Le Cirque…or did they? Later that night, [...]

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  • The Dawn of Correction

    The Dawn of Correction

    Dawn: I don’t care if everybody hates me here, as long as you don’t. Joan: We’ll see about that. – To Have and to Hold Finally, Dawn Chambers gets her own storyline on Mad Men. And it’s a beaut: We get to see Scarlett dump the task of punching her time clock fraudulently into Dawn’s [...]

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  • The Pete Campbell Dilemma

    The Pete Campbell Dilemma

    This cannot be ‘made good.’ – Pete Campbell, The Flood It is one of the unifying principles of the Mad Men universe that Pete Campbell is a douche. He’s the Crown Prince of Douches, or at least the Duke of East New Doucheford. Everyone knows that. But … Where Pete is concerned, always the caveat: But [...]

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  • Waiting for Ginzo

    Waiting for Ginzo

    (Ed. Note: This post was composed prior to The Flood, and Ginsburg’s introduction to Beverly Farber … but I stand by the general point.) He’s had, what, one, maybe two lines in each of the first four episodes this season?  And most, if not all, of them have been gems (Project Kill Machine!!). However, you [...]

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  • The Animals Coming Two By Two

    The Animals Coming Two By Two

    Morris Ginsberg explained to his son that it’s in times of tragedy and crisis that couples come together, like the animals on Noah’s ark, going two-by-two. It’s too simplistic a reading of this episode to say that’s what it’s about. It’s become something of a guessing game to find the scene that explains the theme, [...]

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  • Treachery

    Treachery

    “Now fraud, that eats away at every conscience, is practiced by a man against another who trusts in him, or one who has no trust. This latter way seems only to cut off the bond of love that nature forges…But in the former way of fraud, not only the love that nature forges is forgotten, [...]

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  • Dr. Rosen Knows What He's Doing

    Dr. Rosen Knows What He’s Doing

    From a poster named TC3200 on TWoP, a startling idea about Arnold Rosen that I wanted to highlight because its utter perfection just made me gasp: If he’s not cheating, he is wanting out of that marriage. I think some of his answering service calls might only be fakes that are calculated to throw his [...]

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