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...

Welcome to the very first Mad Men Retro T LOunge, darlings!   Isn’t it fabulous? Please remember not to touch the bunnies inappropriately.   Since the preview, in typical Matthew Weiner manner, tells us absolutely nothing except that Joan’s rocking a “Tina Louise...

Darlings, Sausage Friday continues as we all witness the seasonal plumage display of the American drag queen. The ladies were out in their finest for the Rupaul’s Drag Race Season 5 Finale, Reunion & Coronation taping. Enjoy the DRAGSTRAVAGANZA, darlings! As far as we’re...

Oh, what the hell. Why not. One more time, darlings.   Allegra, Dubai To be honest, we just want to celebrate that we’re finally getting a break from Project Runway, which we’ve been blogging non-stop in one form or another for over 18 months. Kittens, we need the rest. We...

In an episode entitled “The Flood,” with a closing song of “Love is Blue,” maybe it’s not such a surprise that blue featured prominently throughout the episode. And this gives us an opportunity to float our new “blue and green motif” explanation....

It’s almost impossible to watch an episode like “The Flood” and not spend the entire time comparing it to season 3′s Mad Menization of the (first) Kennedy assassination, “The Grownups.” Aside from the rather obvious similarities in story, both episodes also...

Hit it, oh disappointed ones!     Stanley Stanley shocked the shit out of us. We might have predicted that his collection would skew dowdy and mature, but we never would have guessed that he’d be the flighty, scatterbrained, unprepared one. We’re going to say it: We got...

Hello. I’m Nina Garcia, Project Runway co-host, Marie Claire Creative Director, and best-selling author. Welcome. Come with me as we take a journey; a journey through another boring Project Runway finale. Our story starts here, when Stanley, the little girl with the dreadful tattoos,...

Curtain UP, bitches!   Cube Nightclub and Rooftop Patio, Toronto, Canada Wouldn’t it truly be awesome to have a viewing party in that pit? Just hang a giant TV on that pole, please. And run up a tab. Guest judge Michael Kors, Nina Garcia, Zac Posen and Heidi Klum Oh praise Jesus,...

We got embarrassingly excited when the episode opened with a shot of those green and blue room dividers, opening up to a tableau of men all dressed in blue and green. We noted in the season opener that Peggy was working a lot of blue and green and that it was reflected in the men she was...

Understand that we state this merely as an observation and not a complaint, but the penultimate RPDR season episode is always a little dull to us.   Drag Race is extremely upfront about how artificial it is – like a drag itself in a lot of ways. So at this stage in the game,...

In the world of Mad Men, some days you’re the ketchup bottle and some days you’re the french fry. And in this era of change and experimentation, it’s a time of great discovery for our characters. Joan is discovering that no matter what her title or how much money she brings...