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Don Draper

Jon Hamm, Real Life Cardinals Fan, Appreciated the Mad Men Writers Putting in a Dig Against the Mets

Posted June 18, 2013, 1:15 pm by (36 Comments)

Will Don Draper become a Mets Fan in ’69, though?

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Don Caught

Mad Men Recap: “Favors”

Posted June 10, 2013, 6:00 pm by (8 Comments)

Most human activity is “just another excuse to make out.”

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Peggy Joan

Mad Men Recap: “A Tale of Two Cities”

Posted June 3, 2013, 1:06 pm by (19 Comments)

In separate locales, with the turbulent 1968 Democratic Convention ever present in the background, Don and Joan forge new, pristine paths. Well, they try to.

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Mad Men Recap: “The Better Half”

Posted May 28, 2013, 6:20 pm by (9 Comments)

Societal rupture told through two pairs of short shorts.

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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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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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joan partying

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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