Even the historical events in Mad Men are part of its empty surrealism.
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.
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.
Mad Men’s sojourns to the West Coast have an otherworldly and surreal feel to them.
It pulls off the not-inconsiderable feat of tackling one of cinema’s last taboo frontiers—bestiality—with sincere sweetness.