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Mad Men Tv Show

April 13, 2014 by · Comments Off on Mad Men Tv Show 

Mad Men Tv Show, When I rise from the sofa after an episode of Mad Men, I sigh at how lucky we are to be living today. Not because today we no longer have to deal with Sterling Cooper levels of antisemitism, sexism and racism, or because today we know about the effects of alcohol and cigarettes on our fast-dying bodies, but because we are living in a time of such fantastic TV. God it’s good.

Watching Mad Men is an active state. You are required to listen, and see things, and not look down at your phone even once. Much as I love the feeling of bathing in a few well-timed episodes of Friends, I do look forward to engaging with the telly, once a week at least. Mad Men episode blogs compete for references to just-spotted novels, and half-suggested political and cultural events that add texture to the characters’ seductions. Fans dissect the props online, the costumes, the soundtrack, the weather. Everything means something on the internet after Mad Men, every inch of skirt; every coffee cup is a signifier, a warning or memory. The script is magnificent in that you barely notice it. There was an exciting moment last season when bloggers wrote essays explaining how they’d come to the realisation, reading between the scenes, that Megan had been murdered. She hadn’t, but where a show like True Detective lights its dialogue like neon cinema signs (you can picture the writer pausing the tape after every line to turn proudly to the audience for a thumbs up) in Mad Men it just feels like … talking. And then, at the same time, alongside all that wisdom and infinite detail, there are stories. Real stories.

Hidden identities, deathly power struggles, infidelity: loads of it. Stories that are beautiful illustrations of how advertising works to sell us fantasies about ourselves. Characters that evolve and surprise you, and then you look back and see how the things, all the things, that happened to them made them this new person who looks just the same but sadder round the eyes. Joan and Peggy, two sides of the same dented coin, a walking page of #EverydaySexism, clambering their way across that landscape of dicks and haircuts in their own, time-shaped, corseted ways. Betty, the melancholy housewife defined by her beauty, left behind by a world that is changing. Sally, coming to terms with the grotesque glamour of being a grownup. Roger, a suave combination of wit, power and death. Pete, the most ambitious man in the world. Megan, passive, wiggling, saint. And Don. The best-dressed sociopath on telly. Anaesthetised pin-up. Alcoholic dad with attachment disorder and flashes of creative genius. Liar. Sexy liar. When you Google his name there are equal numbers of essays on the twisted psychology of his character and how to utilise his inspirational sales quotes in the workplace. Which is something.

There’s been plenty written on the meaning of Mad Men. Too much, maybe. But it’s the way it makes you feel, rather than the things it teaches you, that deserves a bit of time, I think. The way you are both seduced and disgusted by the gorgeous excess of this filtered 1960s, the saturated colours and the way people drink. The way you develop complex relationships with the characters, to the point where they drip into your dreams like exes. The way you feel nourished after an episode, and a bit scared, because what if people find out about Don, and what if they don’t? And is there any hope for Joan? Or Sally? Or “women in the workplace”, and violent sex, and war, and who you are? And then, of course, the credits roll and there you are in your pyjamas 50 years later, and everything’s OK because it’s just TV.

Mad Men Season Finale

October 18, 2010 by · Comments Off on Mad Men Season Finale 

Mad Men Season Finale, Christina Hendricks graces the red carpet at the final projection Mad Men season on Sunday (October 17) in New York.

The actress of 35 years was joined on the carpet by co-stars Elisabeth Moss and Cara Buono.

Christina is featured on the cover the November 2010 issue of Harper’s Bazaar. She told the magazine how women often hit on her!

Earlier this month, Christina filmed driving his next film with co-stars Ryan Gosling and Carey Mulligan.

Pepco Power Outage

July 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on Pepco Power Outage 

Pepco Power OutagePepco Power Outage, Pepco has tasted the wrath of God for supporting gay marriage. Several months ago, all our faces frowned in disappointment that we have found even effervescently Pepsi fizz with the support of gay marriage foul.

Pepco and Pepsico are quite similar in the name so that we can establish a reasonable association with regard to the sign that God is sending to it. The wrath of God was so angry and blinded in particular look like they are being hurt! God is giving a warning that Pepsi Pepsico, and even a group from the power grid with a similar name, will face his wrath for supporting gay marriage!

It is with great disappointment which we relive this article: Trafficking of Pepsi Cola to become the Gay. Soda is full of carbonation, and we hope that everyone who drinks in foam cups gay lifestyle means there is no better fuel for the fire of hell that carbon sins gay!

Don Draper

July 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on Don Draper 

Don DraperDon Draper, (Los Angeles Times) — “What do you think the devil will look like if he is near? Nobody is going to take if you have a long tail and red, pointed. … He is attractive and pleasant and helpful and will get a job where influenced by a God-fearing great nation and will never do a bad thing … it only gradually lower standards, which are important. coax along only flash over substance. … And he get all those great women .

– Aaron Altman (Albert Brooks) in Broadcast News ”

The premiere of the fourth season of the AMC “Mad Men” opens on Sunday with a voice asking: “Who is Don Draper?

That is the question around which revolved the series, both literally and figuratively, since it began. When we met him, Don (Jon Hamm) had a nearly perfect aspect – the square jaw, that seem to know, how skillful driving and a woman a cigarette.

By now, of course, we know it’s not perfect, not even Don Draper. This is a false name, made by a colleague of Dick Whitman died in Korea. Dick was a restless soul, born of a young prostitute who died while having raised by people who equate morality with coldness. That he would flee this identity and make a career in advertising is brilliant social commentary – Don Draper, after all, the physical embodiment of the lap.

But in three years “Mad Men” Don is clearly not just a well kept Everyman trying to understand everything, or a symbol for those who have had to reinvent itself in a narrow and treacherous world, carved by fate and social convention. Not even the personification of a rolling country on the brink of revolution.

The answer is simpler than that: Don Draper is the devil.

While everyone has been sidetracked by vampires, werewolves tortured soul and loved, Don has been quietly taking over the world, a means of manipulation, the truth at once. Think about it. In the three years I’ve known him, Don Draper has made one thing that was not driven by rabid self-interest? Of course remained silent about Sal (Bryan BATT) be gay, but Don stepped forward and require no salt be fired? And yes, he did not condemn Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) when he figured she had a baby, but exactly how does it help? Telling him to nail down those emotions, keep your secrets secret and painful return to work. So they could continue to use his creativity underpaid.

Amc Tv

July 26, 2010 by · Comments Off on Amc Tv 

Amc TvAmc Tv, Baltimore Ravens first draft selection Sergio Kindle head hurt in a fall in Texas, a setback that will prevent the linebacker to report to camp today.

The injury occurred late Thursday, while light in a house in Austin, Texas. According to the Ravens, it is believed he fell two flights of stairs. He is in stable condition at University Medical Center Brackenridge.

Kindle played in Texas before being selected by the Ravens in the second round pick.

Eli’s wife and 1M give

New York Giants, Eli Manning and his wife, Abby, have given and 1 million for an academic scholarship program at his alma mater.

A press release quoted as saying that Manning is giving to the need-based program at Ole Miss chance, because academics and good grades are very important to him.

Taking into account the change in his career, Don Draper may find himself more devoted to work than ever. However, if someone finds a clever way out of this dilemma is Draper.

The premiere of Season 4 airs tonight Mad Men on AMC at 10 PM / 9pm CST. To see Mad Men Season 4 will have to slide on AMC. There are a lot of information on how to see the season premiere of Mad Men 4 http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/wheretowatch/

Now that you know how to catch the premiere, what do you think will happen in tonight’s premiere?

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