EJ – Who is Don Draper? Remember Season One, when that question formed the backbone of the season?  At the time, we had no way of knowing how complicated the answer was going to be.  Well, now we’re asking that question again, literally opening the season with those words. Only […]

EJ – It’s inherently difficult to try and pre-game Mad Men, because creator Matthew Weiner is more than a little stingy with the details of upcoming episodes.  It was a big deal when the new season’s promo poster was released and we all got to see… Don Draper looking out […]

Note: It was announced this week that Mattel is planning a line of Barbie dolls based on Mad Men. We’re pretty excited about the opportunity to own tiny versions of Don, Betty, Joan, and Roger, but we couldn’t help but think it sounded a little familar.  Back in 2008, Myndi […]

EJ – The finales for the first two seasons of Mad Men weren’t exactly what I’d call “rousing”.  Lest we forget, Season One ended with Don Draper weeping alone on the stairs of his empty house, and Season Two brought us Pete Campbell cradling his shotgun on the eve of […]

We knew this episode was coming, and yet I wasn’t ready.November 22, 1963 finally arrived, and it was devastating.Having not been alive then, I can’t directly relate to the events of that day, but there’s an older woman at work with whom I discuss Mad Men every Monday, and this episode […]

Myndi – Wow.  Can you believe that episode even happened?!  We found out that Roger once got dumped, Joan broke a vase over her husband’s weaselly head and Betty finally confronted Don in a way few could have imagined. The few moments of levity were provided by Roger’s storyline, in […]