May 2012
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Mad Men Mondays: The Other Woman
Remembering the fur coat Roger gave her in a hotel room that one time…
And look where that got her! A baby. No husband. No future. A mess. Joan has had a lot of unfortunate luck when it comes to romance: Dr. Rapist. The lesbian roommate. Knocked up after a stick up. A passionless kiss with gay Sal. Even an allusion to a one night stand with Paul Kinsey in the pilot episode. Ugh. Take the...
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Mad Men Mondays: Christmas Waltz
On In Plain Sight, Mary McCormack’s Mary Shannon once wisely declared, “There are only two kinds of surprises: birthday and Pearl Harbor.”
“Surprise! There’s an airplane here to see you!”
I thought I already had my favorite line of the season when Roger said, “How Jewish are they? Fiddler On The Roof: audience or cast?” But then Joan found an...
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“I think I’ll go freshen up. The train was disgusting. I flew here but I...”
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What To Watch: 2012-2013
As every TV season draws to an end each May, we always get some resolution and a few cliffhangers. And sometimes that extends to the life of the show itself! As usual, the networks have canceled a bunch of shows to make way for new stuff this fall. Here is a quick glance at what I think it all means for us the viewers:
1. Fewer terrible special effects!
As I mentioned last week, some shows have...
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Mad Men Mondays: Dark Shadows
“Mr. Draper, we regret to inform you that it is every man for himself.”
Selfish people acting in their own self interest was all over Mad Men this week and why not? I can’t imagine a better way to describe the baby boomers who rocketed out of that decade and unleashed the bleak and horrible future we inhabit today. Although, Weiner and company seem to conclude that they...
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Mad Men Mondays: Lady Lazarus
“The engines have stopped.” You know that moment on the Titanic after the iceberg has faded off into the distance and before it really starts to sink. That calm nothingness where life seems normal but certain doom is already in motion. Welcome to this week on Mad Men! p.s. I <heart> this season!
I am less interested this week in Pete and his antics. But it does fit in nicely...
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TV's Hottest Trend: Terrible Backgrounds!
You know how much I love TV, and I watch an enormous amount of it. Some of it is very high brow and low rated (Mad Men, 30 Rock, Downton Abbey) and some of it is good old fashioned delicious pulp (Secret Circle, Doomsday Preppers, Strike Back). But this season has been plagued over and over again by a new insidious problem: terrible backgrounds.
Naturally, whenever possible something is filmed...
