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Mad Men Recap: Season 5, Episode 6
Has this been the weirdest season of Mad Men yet? The entire season has had an odd, eerie quality to it, the kind of feeling you get in the seconds when you wake from a really intense dream and aren’t...
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Mad Men Recap: Season 5, Episode 7
“How is the city?” asks our lax-bro-in-the-making friend Glen. “Dirty,” replies Sally. And with that one word, budding woman Sally Draper (and yes, I feel like a total creep for writing that, but this...
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Mad Men Recap: Season 5, Episode 8
The story of Lazarus, as we know (fine… as Wikipedia tells us, because we are Jews), is the story of one of Jesus’ followers who Jesus raises from the dead after being in a tomb for over four days....
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Mad Men Recap: Season 5, Episode 9
How old were you when you realized that your parents were people? Even as a kid, you can kind of intellectually understand that your parents had lives before you existed, and that as much as it feels...
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Mad Men Recap: Season 5, Episode 10
This week on Mad Men, there were themes of control, power and… Sorry I just can’t do this because HAHAHA HOLY SHIT PAUL KINSEY IS BACK AND HE’S A HARE KRISHNA NOW AND HE LOOKS LIKE THE FAT TRADER FROM...
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Mad Men Recap: S05E11, The Other Woman
Wow. Okay. There’s a lot to process here, but I’m going to start with the obvious. Peggy Olson! WTF. Because the “next week on Mad Men” previews are garbage (somebody opens a door! Don takes a phone...
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Mad Men Recap: S05E12, Commissions And Fees
What is it about a self-hanging that seems to make it the saddest form of suicide? The visual image of Lane Pryce’s death was arresting enough — his grey, bloated face, dangling three feet above the...
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Mad Men Season 5 Finale: The Phantom
Is Don Draper alone? This is the question posed to Don by a beautiful woman in the final shot of the final episode on the fifth season of Mad Men, just after he walks into a bar, lights a cigarette,...
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Ryan Gosling Sucks
I’ve never said this out-loud before, but I think it’s time for me to finally admit the truth: I can’t stand Ryan Gosling. Can’t stand him. I think he’s a shitty actor, I haven’t liked any of the...
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Beck: Master Of The Zeitgeist
Pop-quiz hotshot (sorry)! Name one artist in 2012 who completely defines the current zeitgeist while also manages to stay two steps ahead of the current cultural trends? It’s not anyone you’re...
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