Abigail Rine recaps Mad Men’s Episode 8, where the office gets high on uppers, and it’s revealed that Don Draper’s sex addiction may link back to having been raped as a teenager.
Mrs. Antihero
May 14, 2013 By 10 Comments
We love to watch bad guys on TV. Why do we love to hate their wives almost as much?
Mad Men, Episode 6: Despite Being a Complete Jerk, Don Draper is a Hero Once Again
May 6, 2013 By 11 Comments
Joanna Schroeder recaps and rips into this week’s episode of Mad Men: Season 6, Episode 6.
Mad Men, Episode 5: Shot Rings Out In the Memphis Sky
April 30, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Matthew Norman risks drifting into wide-eyed fanboy territory when he admits that forty-five minutes in, Episode 5 becomes something special.
Watching History Unfold Through ‘Mad Men’
April 29, 2013 By 1 Comment
The most recent episode of Mad Men reminded Steve Jaeger of what it was like in America when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated.
The Collaborators: The Mad Men Guide to Raising Children
April 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Ben Tanzer recaps Mad Men’s second episode, and comments on the ways in which raising kids is just like being a character in AMC’s hit series.
Mad Men Episode Recap: Naked Megan, Reefer Madness, and Beware of Peggy
April 8, 2013 By 7 Comments
Sean Beaudoin recaps the season premiere of Mad Men… The good, the bad and the ridiculous.
Frustrated With Your March Madness Bracket? So Are the Characters in Mad Men (Video)
March 31, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Did your Cinderella team not make the final four either? See your favorite characters debate and lament in “March Mad Men”.
How to (Unsuccessfully) Deal With a Workplace Bully
January 27, 2013 By 1 Comment
Allan Mott never quite found the right way to deal with a bully he was forced to work with.
NRA, Slavery, Cigarettes, Guns, Lincoln, Mad Men, Cloud Atlas & the Evil of the Assault Weapon Industry
January 5, 2013 By 8 Comments
In this incarnation of the strong against the weak, it’s a maniac with an assault rifle versus school children.
TV’s New Golden Age and Why Homeland Won’t Be Remembered
November 21, 2012 By 3 Comments
Greg Olear had high hopes that Homeland would join the ranks of the truly elite television dramas. Here, his criteria for what makes a TV show superb.
What Is a Good Man?
October 1, 2012 By 7 Comments
With quotes from friends and famous folks alike, Tom Matlack finds that defining goodness is not science, it’s art.
The 10 Best Shows to Watch With Your Wife
September 26, 2012 By 8 Comments
To help stoke the flames of marital bliss, I have pulled together a list of 10 shows that I think are good ones to watch with your wife.
Our Football Picks, Week 4: The Catch
September 22, 2012 By 2 Comments
Jim Jividen’s got a can’t-miss script for the best sports book never written: how the progressive San Francisco 49ers stood athwart the rising tide of conservatism in the 1980s and gave San Franciscans something to be proud about.
They’re So Good: Possible Yoplait Slogans
September 11, 2012 By 1 Comment
I asked people to submit their ideas for a new and improved Yoplait slogan–a slogan that will appeal to the Silverado-driving, blank verse-reading, Dr. Phil-watching, freak-in-the-sheets/lord-in-the-streets 21st century man.
Writing Outside the (Idiot) Box
August 31, 2012 By 8 Comments
Dream of churning out laughs for the Hollywood machine? Do it from home, counsels Greg White, who finds freedom writing for anything but TV.
“There is a push for women to be their most genuine selves, and yet now there is makeup for men!?”
This is a comment by Cameron Brown on the post “Makeup for Men? Why?”