In Defense of Betty. "I’ve always thought that the whole point is that Betty is a victim of her time and circumstances, of the very narrow, constricted gender roles (remember the ill-fitting dress she’s holding up against herself as she contemplates being a political wife) that she and women like her were forced — expected, if that seems less loaded — to assume. Those roles were deforming, and, sure enough, they’ve deformed Betty."
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posted by sweetkid
on May 6, 2013 -
2427 comments
"First of all, we almost had no battle at all. For budgetary reasons we came very, very close to having all the action take place off-screen, the way plays have handled battle scenes for a few thousand years." - How the epic battle at the heart of the latest episode of Game of Thrones,
Blackwater, written by George R. R. Martin and
directed by Neil Marshall, came to be.
Mentor relationships in Game of Thrones (and Mad Men).
The National's Lannister song. And, perhaps sriking closest of all to the central themes of the show, Jezebel plays
Game of Thrones: Marry, Fuck, Kill.
posted by Artw
on May 31, 2012 -
241 comments
In a
recent episode of
Mad Men titled "
Lady Lazarus," Pete Campbell has an existential crisis when he sees a picture of the Earth from space, but were there color pictures of the whole Earth in October 1966? First some background...
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posted by quartzcity
on May 10, 2012 -
87 comments
Don Draper invents Facebook. The video pulls from Mad Men‘s “The Wheel” episode — in which Draper conceives an ad campaign for the Kodak Carousel — and applies its dialogue to the Facebook Timeline. It was created by Eric Leist, a technology strategist with Allen & Gerritsen.
posted by sweetkid
on Sep 27, 2011 -
51 comments
The Other Mad Men. It's been accepted more or less as a truism that black people didn't work on Madison Avenue in the 1960s. But facts are stubborn things. There were black people in advertising even then, some (a few) in high places. Contrary to the popular assumption, blacks in that era met with success and challenges on Madison Avenue, like everywhere else.
posted by sweetkid
on Sep 19, 2011 -
28 comments
'The writing is extremely weak, the plotting haphazard and often preposterous, the characterizations shallow and sometimes incoherent; its attitude toward the past is glib and its self-positioning in the present is unattractively smug; the acting is, almost without exception, bland and sometimes amateurish.'
Daniel Mendelsohn dislikes Mad Men.
posted by verstegan
on Feb 4, 2011 -
152 comments
If there's one thing that MeFites are absolutely universal in loving, it's the TV show Mad Men. Right? Right? Well, here's something that even the haters will enjoy :
Milk Men - A Mad Men Parody
posted by Afroblanco
on Nov 7, 2009 -
61 comments
