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 […]

The title of tonight’s episode of “Mad Men” is, in its own way, a form of advertisement. Commissioned by the U.S. Office of War Information in order to glean a better insight into Japanese culture, the resulting work “The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture” did as much to inform American culture as […]

There’s a line in the sand approaching in terms of the seismic social events about to unfurl in the world of “Mad Men.” The characters in the show aren’t aware of it on a conscious level, but there are definitely subliminal hints all around to which they are reacting. The onset of Christmas and New […]