The Romanoffs, an anthology series co-written and directed by Matthew Weiner, is ambitious but disappointingly inconsistent.
It’s a poignant portrait of an artist trying to transcend the limitations of his art by refusing to see the process through.
Considering that “Person to Person” is the series finale of Mad Men, it’s best to start with its final images.
The title of last night’s episode of Mad Men comes from a handbook for hobos written by Nels Anderson.
The writers also confront the dangers of not staying in the present.
Before one can start new business, one must settle old business.
The female characters on Mad Men are probably the show’s strongest asset, but here they’re hollow to the point of insult.
Showrunner Matthew Weiner and company crafted an episode riddled with allusions to business as a love affair.
The purgatorial mood that Matthew Weiner and his crew conjure here sets the stage for Don and company’s final season-long cocktail hour.
Mad Men’s meandering, beguiling sixth season arrives on home video looking and sounding better than ever.
Even the historical events in Mad Men are part of its empty surrealism.
Lionsgate put every ounce of effort and care into serving up the fifth round of cable TV’s stiffest drink.
As it turns out, this low-profile episode is an apt distillation of a largely low-profile season.
For the umpteenth time this season, Don has thrown himself into a drinking binge, precipitated by an urgent call from Anna’s family in California that he can’t bring himself to return.
Outside of the flashbacks, Mad Men gets a little meta on Emmy weekend by making Don’s winning an advertising award (a Clio) a major plot point.
The early going of Mad Men’s fourth season has given us a whole lot of Don Draper and his nonstop cycle of disintegration and reinvention.
Mad Men’s sojourns to the West Coast have an otherworldly and surreal feel to them.
In this episode we watch both Don and Roger humiliate themselves, yet for seemingly opposite reasons.
The episode places itself in the midst of people trying to cope with the fact that everything is changing, both in the world at large and in their personal lives.
It seems not at all coincidental that Don is visually defined by that broad-shouldered suit and the hat that shades his eyes.