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Mad Men Recap: The Ballad of Don and Bob
Two moments dominated last night's episode.
Mad Men Recap: There’s an Extra Nipple for You
You can't go back to Disneyland.
Mad Men Recap: Margarine and Butter
Right in the gut.
Mad Men Recap: You’re Pretentious, You Know That?
What the hell was that?
Mad Men Recap: Reach Out of the Darkness
“Man With a Plan” is an ironic title for an episode about characters running around like headless chickens.
Mad Men Recap: First-Class Lounge
Last night was payoff for four straight episodes that offered little besides characterization and atmosphere.
Mad Men Recap: A Shameful, Shameful Day
Let's talk about race.
Mad Men Recap: The Electric Circus
Can Don Draper ever find peace?
Mad Men Recap: Roosters in the Henhouse
Collaboration/appeasement and prostitution were intertwined in last night's episode.
Mad Men Recap: The Nocturne of Their Discontent
This sixth season premiere feels like a direct continuation of themes from season five.
Mad Men Recap: Chasing a Phantom
Season five's nonstop intimations of death, separation, violence, and dread finally pay off.
Mad Men Recap: The Price of Impulsiveness
Remember when we asked "Why Is Mad Men's Season Five Obsessed With Death?" Well.
Mad Men Recap: Three Women
Joan, Megan, and Peggy get the spotlight, to devastating effect.
Mad Men Recap: Hare Krishna
A Christmas-themed episode gives us a gift in the form of sexual tension between Don and Joan.
Mad Men Recap: Shady Betty
They can't all be gems.
Mad Men Recap: Surrender to the Void
This season, all the major Mad Men characters are learning to follow the Beatles' advice.
Mad Men Recap: It’s Dirty
Don gets lauded while Roger and Megan's mother carry on the oral tradition.
Mad Men Recap: They Weren’t Made for These Times
Last night's anthology-like episode featured a HoJo and a hand job.
Mad Men Recap: The Thrilla of Vanilla
The Englishman versus the Wasp. Who emerges victorious?
Mad Men Recap: Fever Dreams
Two unshakeable images: a purse on a table and a dead woman's shoe.
Mad Men: Time Isn’t on Their Side
"Fat Betty" underscores the imbalance in how the show treats Betty versus Don.
Mad Men Recap: Dawn of an Old Age
Don Draper, 1966 model: a handsome but increasingly craggy stud.
Mad Men Finale Recap: Did Don Disappoint You?
The WTF look on Peggy's face when she stares at Don, stunned and disbelieving and disappointed? Elisabeth Moss was standing in for most of last night's viewers.
Mad Men Recap: Screw You, Jerry Maguire
"You complete me ... " Ha!
Mad Men Recap: Every Time Something Good Happens, Something Bad Happens
In some way, Peggy must be attracted to the fact that Abe thinks she's a war criminal.
Mad Men Recap: Hit Me, Fire Me, Hurt Me
Put simply, everything goes to hell.
Mad Men Recap: Sex, Soup, and Sandwiches
"I would have my secretary do it, but she’s dead."
Mad Men Recap: Climb Every Mountain!
This is a guy who knows when a back-of-the cab blow job is just a blow job, and also when it might turn into something more.
Mad Men Recap: The Show’s Best Episode Yet?
Bert Cooper and Ida Blankenship share a special secret.
Mad Men Recap: Let’s Get Liberated!
Well, here's what happens if you use that neat-o iPhone Cocktail Culture app too often.
Mad Men Recap: The Only Thing We Learn
“A man is shamed by being openly ridiculed and rejected — it requires an audience."
Mad Men Recap: You Look Swellegant!
My name is Peggy Olson and I’d like to — oh, hell, I’ll try anything!
Mad Men Recap: New Year, Same You
"Hand jobs!" sniggers Beavis. "Yee-Haw!" screams Butt-Head.
Mad Men Recap: Fake It Till You Make It
A truckload of coal, jammed down your stocking by the world’s most resentful Santa.
Mad Men Season Premiere Recap: Stage Fright
Once again: "Who is Don Draper?"
Mad Men Season Finale: After the Fall
We can no longer deny that we're watching one of the most bold and unpredictable shows to ever air on television.
Mad Men: We Didn’t Start the Fire
This week, the second-to-last episode of the season sets up the finale with a bang.
Mad Men: The Masked Ball
Don's brand comes under scrutiny.
Mad Men: The Downward Spiral
This bleak episode seems to set the stage for even more tragedy.
Mad Men: The Pursuit of Happiness
All kinds of heartbreak for Don, Betty, and especially Sal.
Mad Men: You Can’t Go Rome Again
When in Rome on a Roman holiday, Don and Betty live la dolce vita, burning Roman candles from both ends.
Mad Men: The Lost Symbols
Peggy, Don, and Betty step into a three-ring circus of heavy symbolism.
Mad Men: Greener Pastures
Party foul! One bold stroke rejiggers the entire season.
Mad Men: Sally Forth
The season’s most satisfying episode yet brings Pete, Peggy, Don, and Betty to the brink of major turning points — and brings one old friend back into the fold.
Mad Men: The Decline and Fall of Dear Old Dad
An excursion into historical metaphor!
Mad Men: Performance Anxiety
A spirited Charleston, a forced accordion solo, a blackface serenade, and a Tigertone duet, plus one heartfelt performance of "I Am Peggy, Hear Me Roar."
Mad Men: Changing the Conversation
One of our favorite episodes spirals around a nuanced debate between Don and Peggy — a multilayered meditation on the nature of feminine wiles.
Mad Men Season Premiere: Once a Dick, Always a Dick
Matthew Weiner loves to mess with us.
Mad Men Season Finale: Near-Annihilation
Don is finally fascinated by his own catastrophe again.
Mad Men: The End Is Nigh!
In this season's penultimate episode, the clouds — and the waves — suddenly break, and a light shines down upon a few chosen ones.
Mad Men: A Case of Darkest Before the Dawn?
Betty gets some much-needed rest while everyone else goes haywire.
Mad Men: Endgame
With just four episodes left, the pace is quickening. And this week, the show goes even darker.
Mad Men: The Noose Tightens
Betty is still on a tear. And Don isn't the only guy who gets the heave-ho.
Mad Men: Fight Night!
Last week, cuckolded comedian Jimmy Barrett told Don and Betty that he knew Don was shtupping his wife. This week, Betty freaks out.
Mad Men: What’s Matthew Weiner Driving At?
This week, Don looks in the mirror and thinks he's figured out what's wrong: That guy would look a lot better in a Cadillac.
Mad Men Writers Bone Up on Lacan
This episode, Peggy and Don take their circus act into a hall of mirrors.
Mad Men: Peggy 2.0
The escalating nuttiness at home and Peggy's utter placidness in the office seemed just more proof that Peggy is the only other Sterling Cooper employee with anything approaching Don's lockjaw discretion.
Mad Men: The Secrets Are Out
Peggy's back!
Mad Men: Marriage As a Full-Contact Sport
Of course this week the show ditches both Peggy and Pete, while the other admen bring their wives into the ring.
Mad Men Crosses Into the Dark Side
The second episode of the most deviously unpredictable show on TV ditched everything already established this season.
Mad Men Season Premiere: Baby-Boomers Confuse and Frighten Don Draper
How do you sell a prestige product to a demanding Sunday-night audience who now expects nothing less than the next 'Sopranos'? Last night we found out!
"I’ve obviously never smoked before in my entire life ... But I caught on."
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In which Roger is quoted saying, "My publisher loves the name of our new firm, and so do I."
Don plays the baby.
There's more to Bob than just a knee nudge.
And she's probably not dead already either.
Happy Father's Day! Let Don, Roger, and Pete's rules make you dads feel better about how you treat your kids.
And his two Tribeca movies and board-game obsession.
Alison Brie is a lot more fun than the characters she plays on TV. Just ask a foot fetishist.
"It’s a world that’s consistently in a state of flux. There are things done that can’t be undone."
