The second season of Rod Serling’s horror anthology series looks downright cinematic in HD.
The miniseries exists somewhere beyond the boundaries of normal taste, in a realm where sheer muchness is its own reward.
Even the historical events in Mad Men are part of its empty surrealism.
This season’s journey toward the final act of Mad Men’s American epic promises to be its most challenging and rewarding.
Lionsgate put every ounce of effort and care into serving up the fifth round of cable TV’s stiffest drink.
Don is a character that allows us to safely indulge, with little in the way of moral inconvenience, our vicarious inner amoral shark.
Addiction has played an important role through most of this season, most explicitly through Don’s struggles with alcoholism.
“Hands and Knees” is very explicitly focused on the theme of secrets.
As usual, it’s Pete who is most eager to prove that the need to consume crosses all social barriers.
Season four of Mad Men begins by reminding us that the heart of the show will always remain the same.
Mad Men continues to hit its stride most indelibly while rendering the off-kilter uneasiness of transition.
By Mad Men standards, this week’s episode gives viewers a couple surprisingly major plot developments.
The idea of attacking your opponent’s biggest strength head on is an old one.
The episode wants us to ponder the theme of parents and their children and the various ways both groups disappoint each other.
The lack of exposition in the pilot is one of its most seductive qualities.