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What is this thing you call “Breaking Bad”?
So apparently there was some big TV event yesterday? If my Twitter feed is any indication, there was essentially nothing worth discussing except what was going to happen on the season finale of...
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Don Draper’s Purgatorio
Mad Men is a soap opera. It’s a show that claims to be “about” the 1960s while limiting its engagement with the 1960s to men’s fashion and background news items that serve, primarily, to let viewers...
View ArticleMid-Season Mad Men Studies: “And would it have been worth it, after all?”
I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have...
View ArticleMad Men Season Five Premiere Open Thread
According to Wikipedia (to which I had to turn to figure out when we were), Mad Men is, in the wake of a 1966 Kentucky-Duke all-white Final Four bout to play Texas Western and be cast, some decades...
View ArticleAnti-Heroics with a Side of Boredom
William Brafford wonders about the meaning behind the rise of the anti-hero in the television shows favored by certain audiences (and, not to point the finger at myself too much, by a certain writer)....
View ArticleDon Draper Studies II: Mad Men as Western
(This post contains spoilers for various seasons of Mad Men. Read at your own risk, but, I mean, it’s on DVD already, so go ahead and help out the Postal Service and that artist formerly known as...
View ArticleDon Draper Studies I: Shoring Fragments Against Ruins
(This post talks about all of Season 4 of Mad Men. Read at your own risk, but, I mean, it’s on DVD already, so go ahead and help out Netflix and the Postal Service.) Over at Postmodern Conservative,...
View ArticleSon of The Wire
Matt Yglesias says: What’s really depressing to me about the current TV landscape isn’t so much that we haven’t seen another Wire-quality show as it is that we haven’t even seen a serious effort to...
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This excellent Atlantic article on the show echoes a few criticisms first aired in an equally excellent Culture11 review last year. Unfortunately, the original article is lost to the Internets, but I...
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