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 “Lost Horizon”

With all the theories out there about how Matthew Weiner’s going to end the series, from Don jumping off a building like in the opening credits to Don actually being the notorious D.B. Cooper, little did we know that Weiner has already been planting seeds about Don’s fate since the first season. After Don spurns […]

Mad Men (2015) – Season 7 “Time & Life”

It isn’t serendipitous that Jared Harris directed “Time & Life,” the latest episode of Mad Men. As you may already know, Harris played Lane Pryce from Season 3 to Season 5, the warm charismatic foreigner who falls in love with New York City and ultimately commits suicide. The moment Pryce finally entered into Mad Men’s family (as […]

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 […]

Mad Men (2015) – Season 7 “Severance”

Warning: The following review contains spoilers! The second half of the final season of Mad Men has been billed as “The End of an Era.” The show’s eight year run and the end of the 1960s certainly feels like the times (they) are a-changin’. Throughout the first half of season seven, Don Draper was knocked […]