What a flipping fabulous hour of TV that was, right? Too bad we had to sit through so much Sylvia Rosen in the earlier weeks to get to this point. Season six of Mad Men has been choppier than most, we’d say, with a rather problematic first half to it, but last night’s episode...

Quick, let’s jet off to Singapore tonight, darlings! The Mad Men Attic Bar, Singapore Granted, the band may make it difficult to watch the episode, but we couldn’t resist the name.       And people are still trying to parse meaning out of these things, even after...

We were thrilled when people started responding to these Mad Style posts. When it comes to TV reviewing, if you don’t establish a strong voice and a decent hook to your work, you’re going to get lost in the crowd; especially when the crowd is as large as the one recapping and reviewing Mad...

Pardon us while we do a victory dance. It’s obnoxious; we admit it, but we think we’ve earned it. We’ll put some spoiler space here, just so it doesn’t pop up on the front page. Okay. Are you ready for our victory dance? Please hear the following in an annoying...

Darlings, it’s a sunny (where we are) Sunday evening (as we post this). What better time to head to P.J. Clarke’s with the gang and maybe do some twisting with your last mistake? Ah, the good old days of Mad Men, when Paul had a job, everyone was terrified of Joan, and Harry burst...

Once again, too much ground to cover for foreplay, kids. Let’s get to it.   For once, we’re seeing them both in the apartment at the same time, dressed roughly equivalently, i.e., one isn’t way more formally dressed than the other or one isn’t wearing pajamas or...

Oh thank God. Hallucinatory drug trips, rioting in the streets, schizophrenic breakdowns, and corporate intrigue. A simple and uncomplicated episode of Mad Men. After the collective online freakout over a T-shirt after the last episode, we can’t think of anything better for the Mad Men...

Yes, we’re putting our weekly Mad Men viewing party post up quite early this week, but hey, what better thing to do on a Sunday than start drinking early, amirite? Besides, we have opinions to express.   The Campbell Apartment, Grand Central Terminal, NYC. And we ask you, could...

No time for intros, kids. Lots of ground to cover, so let’s get to it.   Once again, yellow seems to be a repeating color this week. Regardless of whether one feels there’s a deeper underlying message to it all, it’s pretty obviously (to us anyway) meant to highlight...

“She’s blonde, classy. You need to make these women different.” “You’re the same person at times.” “They’re two halves of the same person and they want the same thing but they’re trying to get it in different ways.” For all its...

In a way we’re grateful that there were some rather too-obvious costuming and makeup choices made this week, such as the BEAUTY MARK OF DON’S DOOM:   Because we feel like we’ve created a small army of color and costume-obsessed monsters and we think it’s time for...

Anyone else feel like they need a couple Alka-Seltzers and aspirins this morning? Feeling disoriented? Lost your creative focus, energy and confidence? Tell you what. Let’s not think about it too much just this one time. Let’s put some soothing Sergio Mendes Bossa Nova on our...

Darlings, let’s all grab a subordinate, take them to a dark bar, and commit adultery this evening, shall we? Whiskey Blue, NYC Does this not look like a place where Roger or Don might  hang out? Grab a seat. We’ll set up the tab. Old Fashioneds are half-price during Happy Hour....

We admit it; we’re impressed. Season seven may have been one of the least consistent, most frustrating seasons of Nu Who, but at least it ended really, really well; so well, in fact, that we’d call this one of the very best episodes of the relaunched series. But let’s...

At least once a Mad Men season, we have a brief, mad, completely self-absorbed moment when we entertain the notion that costume designer Janie Bryant is deliberately fucking with the two of us. It passes after a time, but make no mistake, the color story we’ve been documenting all...

There we were, near the end of our second viewing of the episode and struggling mightily to marry Janet Jackson to Don Draper and come up with a joke about how privacy is his middle name and his last name, it is control, when a sleepy, cranky, thoroughly demoralized Pete snapped at his...

Darlings, the partners of Sterling Cooper Draper and Whatever The Hell Else They’re Calling Themselves Now kindly request that you order an Old Fashioned (or whatever Mother’s Day cocktail floats your boat), sit back, and let the late ’60s ennui and anxiety wash all over...

It really wasn’t until we looked at the clothes that we realized how much this entire episode was a response to an episode from last season. Okay, let’s get right to it, because we don’t think we ever received so many messages about a hairstyle before in our lives. Yes,...

  Once again, after another extavaganza of a finale and a last-second coronation, we turned to each other and said, “Now, how in the hell are we supposed to recap THAT?”   We’ll just say it: we hate the show’s turn toward even grander artifice in the last few...

Ah, there’s the Mad Men we’ve been missing. Believe it or not, even after we take the opportunity to write two different reviews of the show each week, we still find ourselves pondering the previous episode for days after. It seems to us that there’s been quite a bit of...