Confession: Originally this post was going to be on the Lex Luthor Bailout video that's going around online starring Mad Men's Jon Hamm in a really bad (and visible) bald cap. Yeah, it's cute, it's funny and it's got a lot of Superman references -- but then this puppy came along and cracked me the h...

Jon Hamm isn’t the only “Mad Men” cast member making a splash in Hollywood and elsewhere outside of the AMC network’s show (including hosting SNL and becoming Tina Fey’s Dude on “30 Rock”). Elizabeth Moss, who portrays Peggy Olson on the award-winning show, ...

Mad Men certainly deserves all of the praise thus far received in its first two seasons on AMC, but I always thought it a tad disconcerting that AMC’s Breaking Bad has purred in the background like colorful dry ice. Not only is the series as entertaining, well-produced, and agreeably shrewd wi...

Season 2, Episode 10 Synopsis Pete and Paul are planning a trip to California to learn about potential, new clients in the aerospace industry. Don reminds them the trip is for business, not pleasure. That evening, Trudy tells Pete she wants to adopt a baby. Betty calls Don saying her father, Gene, h...

You might have to be a die hard "Mad Men" enthusiast to appreciate this new video parody, in which ad execs at a Jewish firm try to come up with a campaign to market mayonnaise to Jews. There's lots of......

In an interview iFMagazine.com, Jericho creator tells us his production company is working on a movie version of the show and I say hell yeah! He also lets us know that reruns of the first season on CW have more viewers than Mad Men. Can you believe this motherfuckin’ shit? It’s on Sunda...

From time to time, we see articles proclaiming that thin is totally in or curvy is making a comeback. Oftentimes, this proclamation occurs after fuller-sized models (by fuller, we mean a size 4) grace the runway at a fashion show or a curvaceous actress (like Christina Hendricks of “Mad Men...

When I was young there was this game called Drink Along to Dallas. You got a lot of booze in (Diamond White, Kestrel, cheap vodka), sat in front of the telly, and every time JR or Sue Ellen or anyone on screen took a swig from their drink, so did you. It was a fun way to get drunk with friends. I us...

The Institute For The Future Of The Book sums up my ill feelings about John Updike: His death is, in a sense, another nail in the coffin of a kind of literary vanguard. I can understand why this blog’s readership might relish, openly or in private, the extinction of these writers, particularly...

Mad Men has returned to UK screens, with a heavily trailed start to Season Two on BBC4. And the results were 240,000 (ish) viewers. That holds up pretty well to the Season One premiere that caught 270,000, A drop of 9% year on year is pretty respectable. Whether the number of viewers is worth what t...