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'We Will Never Have This Experience Again'
7 hours ago | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
With the end of "Mad Men" in sight, viewers aren't the only ones feeling a little nostalgic about having only one more season to look forward to.
In an interview with Net-a-Porter magazine, January Jones (Betty Francis) admitted that the "Mad Men" goodbye won't be an easy one for the cast.
“It will be very sad. We are all so close that we will keep in touch, but I don't think we will ever have this kind of experience again -- from the relationships we've made to the success we have had, to the cultural impact [of the show],” she said.
Although series creator Matt Weiner is known for being one of the most secretive guys in show business, he had no problem confirming that Season 7 would be "Mad Men's" last.
“I’m going to confirm that,” Weiner told The Daily Beast of the ahead of the Season 6 premiere, adding that he's »
- Leigh Weingus
Mad Men recap: Season six, episode eight – The Crash
19 hours ago | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »
The writers' speed binge brought on flashbacks, blackouts and the presence of a genuine hippy. Just as trippy was Sally's encounter with Grandma Ida
Spoiler Alert: This blog is for those who are watching season six of Mad Men. Don't read on if you haven't seen episode seven.
Catch up with Paul MacInnes's episode seven blog here.
'I've had loss in my life. You have to let yourself feel it, you can't dampen it down with drugs or sex.' – Peggy Olsen
It's one of the great things about Mad Men that, not only are there episodes in which the characters are on drugs, when watching them, the viewer feels as if they're on drugs too. Last season gives us Roger's acid awakening in which the doors of perception were held open, chivalrously, so that the audience could see harlequin hairdos and hear symphonic bottles of vodka. This week we »
- Paul MacInnes
The Best of This Week’s Mad Men Recaps: ‘The Crash’
21 May 2013 7:45 AM, PDT | Vulture | See recent Vulture news »
Reviewers tap danced through the drug-induced chaos of “The Crash,” praising the brilliant Sally Draper, lamenting the amalgamation of virulent racial stereotypes that was “Grandma Ida,” and sending a collective clarion call for Matthew Weiner to stop with the whore symbolism already. Let’s get you up to speed. Here’s your recap of the recaps; this might hurt a bit.* "This is sort of the ultimate Rorschach test episode, where literally anything you detect going on in it is probably there, because that’s what you were thinking about while watching it. It gives the audience any number of possibilities and invites said audience to start dissecting. Yet I keep coming back to Peggy’s wisdom about loss, to her bruised connection with Don, and the more I look at this episode, the more I find an aching core of loss, love, sadness, and regret." — The A.V. Club »
- Lauren Duca
'Mad Men' Deconstruction Vol. 1: Episode 8: 'The Crash'
20 May 2013 10:23 AM, PDT | The Hollywood Reporter | See recent The Hollywood Reporter news »
An educated guess is that Sunday’s episode of Mad Men, “The Crash,” will leave the audience split about its effectiveness, entertainment value and just sheer lunacy. But even trying to give series creator Matt Weiner and his writers some leeway to turn the show’s tone on its head, it’s still difficult not to watch “The Crash” and think that it maybe was an idea that sounded a lot better on paper than it ended up looking on the screen. Mad Men is a series that very rarely strays from its style – going out West and changing the dark
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- Tim Goodman
'Mad Men' On Drugs
20 May 2013 10:07 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Note: Do not read on if you have not yet seen Season 6, Episode 8 of AMC's "Mad Men," titled "The Crash."
This week's episode of "Mad Men" got speedy when a "Dr. Feelgood" stopped by Sdpcgc and injected half the office with an "energy syrum" that fueled them to work the weekend on the Chevy account. As Don and the creatives crammed and Ken Cosgrove tap danced, things got pretty weird. So what exactly was that speed syrum?
"I've certainly never had any first-hand experience with this quote-unquote 'energy syrum,' but it was amphetamine, a pretty pure form of speed," "Mad Men" star Jon Hamm (Don Draper) says in the video above from AMC. "As Cutler describes it, sort of a burst of creativity. Unfortunately, it's sort of unfocused and doesn't really lead to anything useful."
"Even before 1968, a lot of businesspeople and artsist were going to one doctor in particular, »
- The Huffington Post
Mad Men, Ep. 6.08, “The Crash”: “You Have to Feel It”
20 May 2013 10:01 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Mad Men, Season 6, Episode 8: “The Crash”
Written by Jason Grote and Matthew Weiner
Directed by Michael Uppendahl
Airs Sundays at 10pm Et on AMC
There have been some excellent episodes of Mad Men this season. “The Flood,” “Man with a Plan,” and especially “For Immediate Release” have all been varying degrees of great, but “The Crash” is the first episode to leave me dumbstruck with awe the way so many season five episodes did. It’s an episode in which every scene seems precisely crafted to achieve an effect. What is that effect? Does it extend beyond inspiring bewilderment in the audience? If it doesn’t, and it’s as consistently engaging as this episode is, is that okay? As Andy Greenwald pointed out on Twitter last night, so much TV serves to satisfy our expectations that we should invite confusion and befuddlement when they arise rather than recoil from them. »
- Justin Wier
Mad Men: The Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy of ‘The Crash’
20 May 2013 6:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
We all get burned out from time to time, but it seems that when ad men get burned out, things really go awry. Especially when there may or may not be steroids or some weird “stimulant” involved. This week’s Mad Men, “The Crash,” is a surreal, fever dream of an episode. Nightmarish events occur, but you won’t find any dream sequences here. Written by Jason Grote and Matthew Weiner and directed by Michael Uppendahl, this episode throws its viewers down the same drugged up rabbit hole as the characters. And while it features some of those questionable Dick Whitman whorehouse flashbacks, it’s a very strong one in terms of the overall immersive effect of Uppendahl’s direction and the dark aura that it leaves behind. Chevy has put a lot of deadlines upon the yet-to-be-named super agency, and they need to work all weekend to come up with a slew of new ideas for »
- Caitlin Hughes
Mad Men Review: “The Crash” (Season 6, Episode 8)
19 May 2013 11:07 PM, PDT | We Got This Covered | See recent We Got This Covered news »
Analyzing Mad Men is simultaneously the hardest, and easiest writing gig in town. The show’s refusal to sacrifice artistry for clarity, and say what it’s really thinking, means you can forget the particulars of a scene very quickly, especially if there’s a lot of agency business acronyms and numbers being thrown around. But so long as you have some sense of what’s going on, there’s nothing stopping you from spinning out your reading of events into some sort of interpretation of the show’s deeper mysteries that has a shred of merit.
Mad Men has even poked fun at its knack for being so inviting to consider, yet so hard to pin down: in season two’s “The Gold Violin,” office workers trying to express their thoughts on Burt Cooper’s new painting played like a mini-Rorshach test, but all the meditations were turned into »
- Sam Woolf
"Mad Men: The Better Half" -May 26, 2013
19 May 2013 10:50 PM, PDT | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Sneak Peek the next "Mad Men" episode on AMC, titled "The Better Half", written by Erin Levy, Matthew Weiner and directed by Phil Abraham, airing May 26, 2013.
"Mad Men" focuses on 'Dick Whitman', a small town, bastard son of a prostitute, who assumes the identity of dead combat soldier 'Don Draper', to manipulate, screw and hustle his way into becoming the top creative in a New York-based advertising agency:
"'Roger' is tormented by a recurring dream and Joan' goes to the beach..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Mad Men: The Better Half"...
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- Michael Stevens
Mad Men Recap: “The Crash”
19 May 2013 9:48 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner doesn't like TV critics, and while most show runners probably have the same perspective, I don't know why Weiner in particular has such a bee in his bonnet. Mad Men does get criticized and unravelled, and has for the last seven years, but it's with genuine love and a desire to understand a complicated show. TV criticism is often, to me at least (and I'm biased, of course), a great form of flattery: if your show is worth talking about and dissecting, it's because it's a great show. That doesn't mean it's infallible, though. But back to my original point, I'm pretty sure that "The Crash" was created just to get TV critics weeping softly at having to review this episode so quickly, because it was so deep and layered. On the other hand, maybe it was created just to mess with all of us. »
- Allison Keene
Keeping 'Mad Men' Role A Secret Was 'Torture'
14 May 2013 3:58 PM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
Lisa Rinna's husband Harry Hamlin landed a role on "Mad Men" this season as Jim Cutler, a partner at the ad agency that just merged with Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. On HuffPost Live on Tuesday, Rinna talked about how hard it was to keep her husband's gig a secret until it aired.
When asked if she felt the pressure of Matthew Weiner's infamous code of secrecy, Rinna replied, "Yes! Are you kidding me? ... You get a script that says basically, 'If you talk about this, even with your wife, you're fired.' Forget it. It is very, very secretive. So I wasn't really supposed to know about it until right now." Later, she added, "Finally I get to talk about it! I couldn't talk about it for like three months. And I have the biggest mouth on the planet, so for me to not be able to talk about it has been torture. »
- Alex Moaba
Mad Men, Ep. 6.07, “Man With a Plan”: Best Laid Plans…
13 May 2013 9:41 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Mad Men, Season 6, Episode 7: “Man with a Plan”
Written by Semi Chellas and Matthew Weiner
Directed by John Slattery
Airs Sundays at 10pm Et on AMC
“He enjoys being dominant,” I wrote of Don Draper last week, and he spends the first two thirds of this episode attempting to assert that dominance. He keeps Sylvia in a hotel room existing only to satisfy his needs. He drinks Ted under the table and parades him around in front of the other copywriters in an attempt to communicate his place at the top of the food chain. In earlier seasons, Don would have emerged from these encounters triumphant, but they backfire on him. Times are changing, but Don remains the same. In the episode’s fantastic final shot we are greeted with a man alienated not only from his wife but the world itself.
If Don is constantly trying to get »
- Justin Wier
'Mad Men' Highlights Don's Power Games, at Work and in the Bedroom
13 May 2013 9:33 AM, PDT | Indiewire Television | See recent Indiewire Television news »
The article below contains spoilers for "Man With a Plan," the May 12, 2013 episode of "Mad Men." Don (Jon Hamm) likes to be on top -- not that there was ever any doubt. Don Draper, ad man extraordinaire, has refused to be pinned down by contracts, difficult clients or the ladies in his life, preferring to come and go as he pleases (and to tell people to fuck off whenever he feels like it), impelled by the deep-seated restlessness and self-examination that have shaped his life. "Man With a Plan," directed by Roger Sterling himself, John Slattery, and written by Semi Chellas and Matthew Weiner, is an episode built around a pair of Don's power games as he tried to establish his ascendancy in two different realms. One was with his mistress and neighbor Sylvia Rosen (Linda Cardellini), and the other was with his counterpoint Ted Chaough (Kevin Rahm) in the »
- Alison Willmore
'Mad Men' Highlights Don's Power Games, at Work and in the Bedroom
13 May 2013 9:33 AM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
The article below contains spoilers for "Man With a Plan," the May 12, 2013 episode of "Mad Men." Don (Jon Hamm) likes to be on top -- not that there was ever any doubt. Don Draper, ad man extraordinaire, has refused to be pinned down by contracts, difficult clients or the ladies in his life, preferring to come and go as he pleases (and to tell people to fuck off whenever he feels like it), impelled by the deep-seated restlessness and self-examination that have shaped his life. "Man With a Plan," directed by Roger Sterling himself, John Slattery, and written by Semi Chellas and Matthew Weiner, is an episode built around a pair of Don's power games as he tried to establish his ascendancy in two different realms. One was with his mistress and neighbor Sylvia Rosen (Linda Cardellini), and the other was with his counterpoint Ted Chaough (Kevin Rahm) in the »
- Alison Willmore
Mad Men: Fifty Shades of Draper
13 May 2013 6:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
Don Draper’s devolution into being completely unlikable is nearing completion. He’s been the perpetrator of selfish office politics, continued his adulterous streak, and now he veered into some really cringe-worthy sadomasochistic stuff with Sylvia. This week’s Mad Men, “Man With A Plan,” written by Matthew Weiner and Semi Chellas and directed by Roger Sterling himself, John Slattery, did indeed serve as a heavy critique on Don’s morals, putting him up against his Cgc equivalent, Ted Chaough, and how they compare as creative leaders. We also got a healthy dose of Joan, which is always encouraged, as Joan had to discern whether or not a certain kindness was the product of someone trying to get ahead. And some comic moments with Pete and his ailing mother, though this storyline is a tarnished retread of one from the past. Oh yes, and the Rfk assassination officially happened. While Don is still prone to a burst »
- Caitlin Hughes
"Mad Men: Man With A Plan"
12 May 2013 9:40 PM, PDT | SneakPeek | See recent SneakPeek news »
Sneak Peek new images, footage and synopsis from the next "Mad Men" episode, titled "Man With A Plan", written by Semi Chellas & Matthew Weiner, directed by John Slattery, airing May 12, 2013 on AMC:
"Mad Men" focuses on a small town, bastard son of a prostitute, who assumes the identity of dead combat soldier 'Don Draper', to manipulate, screw and hustle his way into becoming the top creative in a New York-based advertising agency:
"...ad agency 'Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce' tries to placate competing clients.
"'Pete' is blindsided by an unexpected guest.
"'Peggy' and 'Ted' move in on Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce.
"'Don Draper' is excited to have everyone back together again..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Mad Men: Man With A Plan"...
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- Michael Stevens
Mad Men Recap: “Man with a Plan”
12 May 2013 9:36 PM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Oh, Don. What the heck? After a shaky start, Mad Men really received rave reviews last week for an episode that felt like old times, even though I just can't really trust Matthew Weiner at this point to really give us what we want. There must be a catch about this merger. Before that shoe drops though, we got a thoroughly Don-centric episode that was, even outside of Don's plot, all about power plays. Don's question of likability and watchability is still an issue for me, but the way things ended up tonight did leave me wondering what is coming next for him. Hit the jump for why you are not to pick up the phone. When Don witnessed (or heard) the fight between Sylvia and Arnold, I was certain that he was done with the Rosens. Don abhors that kind of drama, and now that Sylvia was really available to him, »
- Allison Keene
Thursday Comedy Roundup: ‘Community’ Finale
10 May 2013 10:09 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Community, Season 4, Episode 13: “Advanced Introduction to Finality”
Written by Megan Ganz
Directed by Tristram Shapeero
Airs Thursdays at 8pm Et on NBC
Community suffered a severe case of senioritis in its fourth season. Sure, there were some high points. “Paranormal Parentage” was promising. “Herstory of Dance” and “Intro to Felt Surrogacy” airing in series made it look like the new creative team may have finally gotten it together. Those were exceptions. When the show didn’t feel like it was trying too hard—and this episode is a good example of that—it too often felt like it was going through the motions, doing the bare minimum necessary to make it through the season, and here we are.
Has anything been resolved? We had a season-long arc involving Chang serving as a mole for City College. While Chang eventually realized he belonged at Greendale, the moment wasn’t afforded much weight. »
- Justin Wier
For Movies and TV, a Critical Divide
8 May 2013 9:30 AM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »
Beyond their good works, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel’s TV showcase helped simplify film criticism, bringing a gladiatorial thumbs-up or thumbs-down ruthlessness to such analysis. It was also a handy marketing tool, which is worth considering as we enter the summer movie season, when negative reviews are deemed about as effective as trying to stop Iron Man by throwing paper clips.
The irony is that while a certain breed of movie blockbusters appear invulnerable to critical brickbats, studios continue to labor mightily to control the flow of information — from forcing attendees to hand over cellphones at screenings to sometimes asking journalists to sign nondisclosure agreements pledging not to break review embargo dates.
In this context, critics are seen as a necessary nuisance, designed to serve one purpose: helping to remind people your movie is opening — thus augmenting the millions spent on TV ads — if not convincing them to go see it. »
- Brian Lowry
For Movies and TV, a Critical Divide
8 May 2013 9:30 AM, PDT | Variety - Film News | See recent Variety - Film News news »
Beyond their good works, Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel’s TV showcase helped simplify film criticism, bringing a gladiatorial thumbs-up or thumbs-down ruthlessness to such analysis. It was also a handy marketing tool, which is worth considering as we enter the summer movie season, when negative reviews are deemed about as effective as trying to stop Iron Man by throwing paper clips.
The irony is that while a certain breed of movie blockbusters appear invulnerable to critical brickbats, studios continue to labor mightily to control the flow of information — from forcing attendees to hand over cellphones at screenings to sometimes asking journalists to sign nondisclosure agreements pledging not to break review embargo dates.
In this context, critics are seen as a necessary nuisance, designed to serve one purpose: helping to remind people your movie is opening — thus augmenting the millions spent on TV ads — if not convincing them to go see it. »
- Brian Lowry
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