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Well, OK. For the most hit-or-miss season of Mad Men thus far, last night's season finale makes perfect sense. Oh, it was still a great season of a great television show to be sure, but it took a lot…   Read Story »
HOO BOY. Before we even get INTO it, you guys might remember in the run-up to this season there was that bus poster ad that featured a "man" mannequin in a smoking jacket sitting in a chair looking…   Read Story »
I stand by my assertion 1000 percent and will LAY DOWN MY LIFE in its defense that the first double-length episode of this season of Mad Men; was just straight up Bad Television. The pacing was off,…   Read Story »
Don is back! Right? Don is back! He took his jacket off, so that means he's back! (Joan is also back, I think. She threw a model airplane at a secretary, so she's back.) Oh, and Kinsey is definitely…   Read Story »
Yes, last night's episode featured a pretty decent Pete plotline (although it ended on a kind of cheesy note. That was a cold-hearted revenge fuck if ever I have seen one, so what is all this weepy…   Read Story »
Last night's episode was a good episode although it had a couple of real clunkers. This season of Mad Men kind of makes me want to go back and start over from the beginning to see if there were…   Read Story »
Another weird episode! This one was directed by John Slattery. Should he direct more things? I'll leave that to Judge Judy to decide. But there were some very odd moments, like Pete's face dissolving…   Read Story »
And so, after a year and a half hiatus, last night was the season 5 premiere of Mad Men. ZOOBIE ZOOBIE ZOO, indeed. We got to see Don's new apartment, and black people, and Joan's secret love baby,…   Read Story »
Conan O'Brien's Dartmouth commencement speech is very good, no duh, watch all of it. -Team Coco 30 things you might not know about Raiders of the Lost Ark. "I know all of these things already,…   Read Story »
We all like The National, right, you guys? Right? Well, if some of us don't like The National--whoops on you, wrongzos--we at least like music videos starring Kristen Schaal, John Slattery, and James…   Read Story »