Mad Men (2015) – Season 7 “Person to Person”

The series finale of Mad Men didn’t end with a bang; it ended with a serene “Om” as Don Draper, in a seated yoga pose, reaches a new plateau of enlightenment. Of course, Matthew Weiner is too smart and too wise to bookend the series with such a saccharine ending. Instead, it is suggested that Don […]

Mad Men (2015) – Season 7 “The Milk and Honey Route”

In the ending of Douglas Sirk’s 1959 masterpiece Imitation of Life, the character Annie Johnson uses her entire life savings for her grandiose funeral. Although Annie has endured many ordeals as an African-American woman, and wears the shroud of a typical mammy stereotype, her funeral is in many ways her only and final attempt at exercising […]

Mad Men (2015) – Season 7 “The Forecast”

Warning: The following review contains spoilers! In last week’s unfairly lambasted episode of Mad Men “New Business”, Don settled his divorce with Megan by writing her a check for a million dollars. He’s no stranger to solving problems with a check and a ballpoint pen but this time felt different. After Megan shrewdly tells him […]