While this is a lesson that AMC may be having a hard time learning lately, sometimes when a show is done, it’s simple that: Done. We were okay with the idea of the “Breaking Bad” prequel “Better Call Saul,” but then the network announced their plans for a “Walking Dead” spin-off featuring new characters in […]
We don’t know what exactly is going on right now in the offices of AMC, but the network is doing a great job right now of driving us positively batty. First, they cancel a strong series in “The Killing” that actually improved its year-to-year ratings slightly for the season 3 finale. Then, they also decided […]
Before we say anything else about the following story, let’s start with what should be the obvious: The following comments from Kevin Rahm were not necessarily intended to be taken seriously. We’re still kind of surprised that other outlets are reporting them as such. Basically, Rahm joked to E! News recently that he was “pitching” […]
We recently went through a series of character debates in talking about the upcoming seventh season of “Mad Men,” and when it came to Don Draper and his former protegee Peggy Olson, one of the concepts discussed was that of recovery. Is it possible for Don, a man who has been severely broken in many […]
Alas, the end is here for our “Mad Men” endgame debate series, and with this article, we place the focus on a man who is the undisputed lead of the show, and whose journey frames much of everything that we see: Don Draper. What a fall from grace this man has managed for himself over […]
We are now getting near the tail end of our “Mad Men” season 7 endgame debate series, but before we turn to the final chapter of our story (talking tomorrow about a certain Don Draper), we now want to focus on Peggy Olson. Ever since the beginning of the show, we’ve envisioned this as her […]
We feel like in the midst of covering so many major characters on “Mad Men,” Sally Draper can occasionally get lost in the shuffle. What’s the reason for that? It’s really rather simple, in that she is young, often irritating to the adults, and is the sort of character that flutters in and out of […]
As we consider our “Mad Men” endgame debate series, we venture to a character that has long fascinated and/or frustrated most of America: Pete Campbell. By all intensive purposes, we really should hate this guy: He’s smarmy, a cheater, and he’s incredible manipulative. Yet, there’s little question that he is still somewhat compelling to watch, […]
We’ve been covering some of the original “Mad Men” cast members in our endgame debate series over the past several days, talking about where we imagine that some of them will take off in the future based on evidence that has been revealed to us both on the show, and also what has been said […]
On “Mad Men” season 6, there was no character that we were enraged at Matt Weiner over as much as we were John Slattery’s Roger Sterling. In the early seasons of the AMC smash, this was the man that we really looked at as a impetus for so much of the Sterling-Cooper drama. However, we […]
