Don (Kowalewski, not Draper) – I promise you, nobody loves AMC’s Mad Men more than spunkybean, hence we’ll spend the better part of three days agonizing over every detail of every episode, often debating details I’m sure the writers never intended to mean anything – like, why did Peggy suddenly […]

MYNDI The overall theme of this week’s episode was pretty clear.  If last week was about parties, this week is about family; mostly how parents and kids relate across generations.  You have Peggy and her mother; Betty and her Dad; a potential client and his wealthy father as well as […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]