So here’s the challenging thing about trying to come to grips with what went down on tonight’s season finale of “Mad Men”: everything was in the moment, and, as such, can only be judged on that moment. “Tomorrowland” might have been the part of Disneyland that Bobby Draper most wanted to visit, but it’s also […]

Addiction is a crippling thing. It can be as benign as, say, writing a recap of a TV show on a Sunday night even though you’ve got to get up early for your mortgage-paying job the following morning. Or it can be as lethal as a heroin addiction, which robs you of your perspective, dignity, […]

Makes sense that tonight’s “Mad Men” ended with The Beatles’ “Do You Want to Know a Secret?” After all, tonight’s episode “Hands and Knees” was all about the state between knowledge and secrets, between public and private. Throughout the season, episodes have ended on doors closing or opening, and now we know why: there’s absolutely […]

Since I did a live blog of the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards already tonight, I don’t have the time not energy to write up a full review of tonight’s episode of “Mad Men,” entitled “The Summer Man.” But having watched it in the aftermath of the awards show debacle, I had to write down […]

Some episodes of television are meant to be epic experiences. Others focus laser-like on minutiae, taking off the wide lens to focus on something smaller, although often more vital. Tonight’s episode of “Mad Men,” entitled “The Suitcase,” was the latter episode, and we as viewers got to watch Jon Hamm and Elizabeth Moss essentially own […]