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 […]
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Venture Brothers — “Perchance to Dean” Venture Bro
This week’s episode of Venture Bros. brought us prog rock, mystical UPS guys, and secrets of the Venture Compound. We also got a cameo appearance by Brock Samson and the return of Dermott. And like last week, we got an old school set-up with the Ventures attacked in their own […]
Mad Men Roundtable: Season 3, “The Grown-Ups”
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 […]
Venture Brothers – “Handsome Ransom” Venture Bro
I have to say that as a recapper, I’m thrilled that this week’s Venture Bros. had a linear timeline. And as a Venture historian, I’m excited that we finally laid eyes on Captain Sunshine this week. Not only is he our first onscreen evidence of superheroes in the Venture-verse, but […]
Mad Men Round Table: Season 3, “The Gypsy and the Hobo”
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 […]
Venture Brothers — “Blood of the Father, Heart of Steel”
And so we begin Season Four of The Venture Bros., in a premiere that uses a storytelling technique that I’ve never really seen on TV before, and also makes a mockery of my Season Four primer that ran last week. Nothing about the Monarch or Jonas Venture, but we did […]