Blogs about: Season 1 Episodes
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Holiday quotation
Roger Sterling: You know what? I am very comfortable with my mind. Thoughts clean and unclean, loving and… the opposite of that. But I am not a woman. And I think it behooves any man to toss all… more →
Basket of Kisses
Pete thinks different, Don thinks the same
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Roberta Lipp wrote 1 year ago: We’ve talked about it in here, and they talk about it more in the ‘best of’… … more →
The Meaning of Nostalgia
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Deborah Lipp wrote 1 year ago: We got this email from Basketcase Jorie: I just picked up a copy of “Panati’s Parade of … more →
Watching Peggy change
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Roberta Lipp wrote 1 year ago: In Hobo Code she was still a party girl (witness The Twist, and also ‘we all work so hard’). By Nixo … more →
The Films of 1960: Distrust, Betrayal, and Sex
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Deborah Lipp wrote 1 year ago: An article in the Montreal Gazette provides this juicy Matthew Weiner quote: The culture views the … more →
Snap, Crackle, Pop
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Roberta Lipp wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been meaning to post this, and then hullabaloo goes and quotes it, so that was my cue. Th … more →
The Best of Mad Men rocks!
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Roberta Lipp wrote 1 year ago: Sorry to be posting like, every hour this weekend. This half-hour special on AMC is really fun. It … more →
a word about hats
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Roberta Lipp wrote 1 year ago: The common understanding of how it worked, the legend (if you will), is that men wore hats until Joh … more →
Don gets caught cheating
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Roberta Lipp wrote 1 year ago: A weekend quotation, only longer. From Bablyon. Sunday night, Mother’s Day, Don and Betty are … more →
Roger Sterling: "What else is there?"
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Deborah Lipp wrote 1 year ago: Roger Sterling is like a walking sense of entitlement. He was more or less born into his job. His na … more →
Actual Emmy Scoopage!
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Roberta Lipp wrote 1 year ago: We just received an email from a self-proclaimed long-time BoK lurker. (We love that more of you are … more →
Episode List: A thing of beauty to behold
Deborah Lipp wrote 1 year ago: Our Episode List for Season 1 is now fully up-to-date. On the summary page, each episode’s wri … more →
Sal knows what he wants
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Deborah Lipp wrote 1 year ago: In The Hobo Code, Salvatore says “I know what I want.” In Nixon vs. Kennedy, we get to s … more →
It wasn't her eyes his smoke was getting into.
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Roberta Lipp wrote 1 year ago: So, this is kind of fun. Dr Emerson, the gynecologist in Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, is played by Remy … more →
Helen? JEALOUS? I think not.
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Roberta Lipp wrote 1 year ago: A few thoughts about Helen Bishop in New Amsterdam. She and Betty get pretty up close and personal, … more →
How to write
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Deborah Lipp wrote 1 year ago: There’s a slick little line in Indian Summer which is almost a primer on good writing. It … more →
AMC, you do NOT get points for this!
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Roberta Lipp wrote 1 year ago: Today the Mad Men blog over at AMC posted a “deleted scene” from The Wheel. Yay. Great. … more →
A black fly in your chardonnay
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Roberta Lipp wrote 1 year ago: (I don’t usually issue spoiler warnings, because we started this blog after the first season h … more →
Could have seen it coming
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Roberta Lipp wrote 1 year ago: Ahh, 20-20 hindsight. Writers, of course, plan a season, and know what they’re doing. In Hobo … more →
Don and Rachel and "from nothing"
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Deborah Lipp wrote 1 year ago: In Long Weekend, we see Don and Rachel connecting the dots. Maybe the first time I saw the episode h … more →
