[I know I'm a week behind, but I had to take an emergency vacation when I realized the quarter starts next week. Expect one more post on this episode before I get to the most recent.] In the first post about "The Suitcase," I concerned...
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"The Suitcase" may well be the best episode of Mad Men to date. Not that admiration necessarily precludes critique, but as I may gush a little bit about Jennifer Getzinger's.
So, we finally struggled through the final season of the Tudors. It's been clear for some time (say, early in season one) that this was not a series that deserved.
Here's a thought: If you're going to make one of your main characters a Catholic priest, try to have a point. It makes it so much more interesting for the viewer. You'd think, for example, that the Catholic priest might have some mild qualms about...
I largely agree. After buying and watching all five seasons of The Wire last year, I struggled with an internal debate: was it better than Homicide Life on the Street?.
In the first comment to my first post on Mad Men, Tom Elrod wrote: I definitely want an update to this post once you've finished the third season. I can't.
...can be read in its entirety at my place because Blogger is being a child and refusing to upload my screen shots. Here's everything up to the first image:Does it strike you as odd that someone writing a book on visual rhetoric has produced two...
Let me open with a quick clarification about the previous Mad Men post: as to the purview of self-fashioning, we all do it. In blog terms, you know me as.
As I noted in the comments to this post, it was only a matter of time before I started Mad Men; however, as I've studiously avoided reading about the show.
The classic Sopranos pattern: big events in the penultimate episode, final episode sets up the next season. But the finale was richly entertaining in itself...
Is it just my imagination, or does the Draper marriage resemble the Soprano marriage in a lot of ways? Discuss.
This is pretty awesome. Via Gary.