Mad Men and Ayn Rand

September 17, 2009 in Drama, Drama Series, Mad Men, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

With the new season of “Man Men” well under way, I thought it might be interesting to look at some of the parallels between the AMC series’s characters and those [...]

Doing Time (Mad Men 3.05)

September 16, 2009 in Drama, Drama Series, Features (BSWatch & Users), Mad Men, Shows You're Not Watching

Schools, prisons, and hospitals are used as motifs in an episode whose underlying theme is that of repression.

Shifts Happen (Mad Men 3.04)

September 12, 2009 in Drama, Drama Series, Mad Men, Shows You're Not Watching, Slide Show

The garden of change lurking just on the edge of Mad Men’s universe, which Don Draper first seemed drawn to in “Love Among the Ruins,” finally and tangibly encroaches into everyone’s lives (ready or not) by the end of Episode 3.04, “The Arrangements.”

(Mad Men) Episode 4 – My Thoughts

September 11, 2009 in Drama, Drama Series, Mad Men, Slide Show

OK. This episode was about legacies, and parts of it almost made me cry (OK, just the Gene parts), but first I have to gush about some stuff. Like Sal’s [...]