Harriet’s transformation isn’t significant enough to justify her complete redemption in the eyes of those around her.
The film evinces a qualified kind of courage in its anonymous convictions, parodying a world that barely ever existed by barely existing itself.
The first episode since “Time Zones” where the narrative constantly felt busy with story rather than depending on symbolic acts and pauses.
The purgatorial mood that Matthew Weiner and his crew conjure here sets the stage for Don and company’s final season-long cocktail hour.
A frontrunner for worst film of the year, God Bless America is a bitter, unfunny diatribe masquerading as satire.
God Bless America takes caustic aim at American vapidity, stupidity, and love of lowest-common-denominator values.
Remember when your mother used to tell you that, if you made faces and somebody hit you, your face might get stuck?
In this episode we watch both Don and Roger humiliate themselves, yet for seemingly opposite reasons.
The use of The Best of Everything is a bit off, as Rona Jaffe’s novel was published in 1958 and the screen version was released in October, 1959.