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It’s the final episode of the season so they just have to wrap everything up nicely so we can sleep well at night. Or not.
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If this show were actually a mid-90s sitcom the title of this episode would most definitely be called “Peggy’s big break”. But since its a good decade later, and her big break relies on a machine that “stimulates” lady parts, it’s not. It’s just a really really hot October in New York, 1960.
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The title of this episode promises a long weekend but we really only get one day! It’s a full day though, lots of funny parts and ends with a (literally) heartbreaking tale.
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This is like porn in the 60s!
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We go in a few different directions in this episode and learn a lot about Don, Peggy and Pete before we even realize all this only happens over the course of one day.
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I don’t think I’ll ever be completely fair with Saturday Night Live. After being exposed to the great sketch comedy shows The State and Mr. Show, mostly anything SNL does will pale in comparison. But what can you expect from a show that has to run twenty 90-minute installments over an eight month span? Whatever, *I* didn’t tell them to do it that often, for thirty-five years, live every single time.
However, last night’s episode featured a set of bits that reminded me of Mr. Show in the happy happy joy joy way – a running gag occuring in more than one sketch. Read more…
So Dick, Don and Adam enter a diner...
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We’ve spent only four episodes with these characters and we just about have them figured out, right? Now we can move on with real stuff. Plots and drama and subtext, oh my! But, what? Dick Whitman? Who? Well, we’ll find out soon.
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How's My Brooding?
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What we have all been waiting for! Let’s dive deep into the world of Peter Campbell, the greatest man-child in all of New York, in “New Amsterdam”.
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What do you mean, how did I get my bangs like that?
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The Marriage of Figaro is about a man that cheats on his wife. In Mad Men, “The Marriage of Figaro” is about cheating…on your wife.
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So who is this charming and beautiful woman? Why that’s Betty Draper. Let’s get to know her in the Ladies Room.
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With it being a slow season for new material, this makes the perfect time to look back and reflect on what once was and will become from the past. With Mad Men not premiering for at least another seven months, I need my fix. From the first episode I watched, I loved it and had too many questions to not keep on watching. Then more questions came. Then BAM shocker from nowhere. Then another and another! And before you know it you’re getting headaches and hot flashes from weeks of not watching when it mysteriously disappears from your DVR…
We get by with a little help from our friends, right? So Roger offers up some insight and general info that you will find conveniently wrapped up in italics.
So we start with episode one: “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”
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