EJ You know, this particular episode was accidentally leaked onto iTunes for a short time a little more than a week ago. And while I do my best to remain spoiler-free, I feel like somebody should have warned me that Roger Sterling would be doing blackface this week. That’s the […]
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Mad Men Roundtable: Season 3, “Love Among the Ruins”
MYNDI – This episode felt like a lot of set-up to me for some fireworks to come. The battle lines have been drawn between Roger and his ex, Mona. Daughter Margaret doesn’t want Roger’s new wife Jane in attendance at her nuptials, though Mona was at least willing to concede […]
Mad Men Round Table: Season 3, “Out of Town”
EJ – Well, Season Three bursts out of the gate with the Secret Origin of Dick Whitman. Now, we know that Dick/Don’s real mother was a prostitute who died in childbirth, but this sequence raises some questions. First, is his father really his father? It seems like there’d be a […]
Smell the Embarrassment!
We are in what the elders of our tribe call “The Dog Days of Summer”. We’re not sure what that means exactly, but we get the gist. For those of us indoorsy types, there’s not a lot of new programming to keep us occupied. Seriously, last week ABC pre-empted a […]
The Most Awesome Thing We Saw Last Week: Gordon’s Back!
You know, we’ve taken a couple of weeks off in our cataloguing of Awesomeness. Please don’t think that this reflects some sort of sea change at spunkybean, perhaps a new regime that assumes a “take it or leave it” approach to Awesome. No, you can rest assured that we care […]
Big Brother 11: Snap Judgements!
It’s July, and around here, that means the return of Big Brother to the airwaves! Yes, it’s season 11 of the addictive reality franchise, which is really the ultimate show about nothing. This season, the house is being divided into cliques: the popular kids, the jocks, and the “brains”. The […]