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Mad Men Recap: “The Crash”

Posted May 20, 2013, 6:25 pm by (No Comments)

The Ad Men receive shots from a quack doctor to achieve creative focus, energy and confidence before a long work weekend. A world of subtlety, tact and inner turmoil becomes an overt circus of emotion, discarded time and tap dancing poetry.

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don

Mad Men Recap: Destruction, New Life And a Post-Apocalyptic Earth

Posted April 29, 2013, 6:10 pm by (9 Comments)

Social tensions simmer in the initial episodes. In “The Flood” they explode with Martin Luther King’s assassination.

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Mad Men Recap: Perception, Reality and a Lot of Empty Bottles

Posted April 22, 2013, 5:18 pm by (13 Comments)

Titles may change but reality can remain quite similar.

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Mad Men Recap: Relationships, Whorehouses and Leaky Compartments

Posted April 15, 2013, 2:30 pm by (28 Comments)

The season opener looked at internal tensions. “Collaborators” progresses to interpersonal relationships.

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Mad Men Recap: Life, Death and a Very Awkward Rape Joke

Posted April 8, 2013, 1:53 pm by (65 Comments)

With other networks hawking hackneyed writing and sexy Watson, Mad Men opens with a two-hour, multi-layered meditation on the meaning of life and makes it work.

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Mad Men Recap: The Phantom Finale

Posted June 11, 2012, 10:07 am by (68 Comments)

Matthew Weiner said “success was on his mind” when writing Mad Men’s fifth season. Most of this season meditated on what it is, on what it means and on what we would be willing to endure or to kill to maintain it.

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Roundup: Rafael Nadal Wins French Open, Jerry Sandusky Trial Begins, & Chili Peppers Drummer Sings Hail to the Victors … at Columbus Concert

Posted June 11, 2012, 8:31 am by (149 Comments)

Winnie Cooper is single again, one Massachusetts town wants to fine people for cursing, and for people who grew up in the 80s, Dallas is returning to TV.

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