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Mad Men and the end of delicate, but potent nostalgia

On Sunday May 17 the final episode of Mad Men will air, bringing to a close what is widely considered one of the finest television shows in history. Set in the skirt-chasing and whisky-swilling world...

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Mad Men finale: Don found peace and so should we in series’ novel-like...

“Mad Men” is over — and with it, happily, are all the protracted, overwrought theories about how it would end. Perhaps now is the right time to at last regard Matthew Weiner’s muddled but mesmerizing...

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Mad Men finale: What’s so cynical about peace, love and Coca-Cola?

It feels like there’s a Rorschach test hidden in that Coke ad — one of the few ads that’s truly famous, now even moreso as the final image of our best ever reckoning with the world that creates and is...

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Coke is it, and fitting: parting thoughts on Mad Men’s parting shot

It feels like there’s a Rorschach test hidden in that Coke ad — the “buy a world a Coke” spot is one of the few ads that’s truly famous, now even more so as the final image of our best ever reckoning...

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What Mad Men taught us about the women behind the scenes as well as in them

Six years ago, as Mad Men was preparing to enter into its third season, the Wall Street Journal ran a feature about the series’ female writing staff. “A writing team dominated by women shapes the...

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Mad Men finale: Is Bill Backer the real Don Draper?

Warning: This article contains a spoiler, of sorts Mad Men’s finale ended not with a whimper but with a song. As a refreshed Don Draper saluted the sun, wide-eyed viewers were treated to a playback of...

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Barbara Kay: The enduring lessons of Mad Men survive beyond its denouement

Didn’t Mad Men end just perfectly? Yet it’s indisputably over. Mad Men was my formative era. The show brought so much back for me: everyone smoking like chimneys; the physically uncomfortable bullet...

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Series finales are like funerals: On Letterman, Mad Men and letting go

I still haven’t seen the series finale of 30 Rock. I don’t know how The Office ends, where the Parks and Recreation characters went, and I won’t watch Mary Richards turn off the WJM TV lights for the...

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HBO’s Olive Kitteridge, Game of Thrones and Veep win big at the 67th Emmy Awards

In the written previews preceding Sunday night’s Emmy Awards, the word “transition” was used almost as much as the term “television’s greatest night.” There are about a million reasons for this: The...

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Jon Hamm will play ad executive Don Grouper on SpongeBob Squarepants – sound...

After finally taking home an Emmy this past weekend for playing the ever-slick, ever-sick Don Draper on AMC’s Mad Men, Jon Hamm will be revisiting the troubled ad man down in Bikini Bottom. Nickelodeon...

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Jen Gerson: The selfie stick is the symbol of our age, and it captures the...

The selfie is a horrific invention. I’m not innocent, I’ll admit. I’ve taken a few. And I can already hear their defenders declaring “there’s nothing new here.” “People have always posed for pictures...

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In 2015, the golden age of television progressed from anti-hero to compelling...

Mad Men was a show about the ending of an era, so I hope it’s not just a case of being drunk off its own potent themes to say that its final bow felt like the end of particular era in television....

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Here’s the full list of awards winners from the Golden Globes

Here is the complete list of winners from the 73rd Golden Globes at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California: Television Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role In A Series, Limited...

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Introducing the Netflix Binge Scale, which reveals what you’re savouring and...

As a rule, one that plenty of cable networks don’t take too kindly to, Netflix never releases ratings for each of its series. But on Wednesday, the streamer unveiled the Netflix Binge Scale, which...

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Is there even a distinction to be made anymore between television and movies?

Debate among critics tends as a rule toward the unfathomably arcane, and therefore rarely rises to the attention of our readers — for which our readers may be thankful. But through the din of...

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How feminism followed Mary Tyler Moore’s wonderful and imperfect legacy

Before there was Detective McNulty, Tony Soprano, Walter White, Francis Underwood or Don Draper, there was Mary Tyler Moore. Long before “prestige TV” shows like The Wire, The Sopranos, Breaking Bad,...

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Fifty (fictional) years later, Heinz runs Don Draper’s rejected advertising...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwPjdVImK0g&w=640&h=390] Fifty (fictional) years ago, Don Draper, the greatest ad man who ever lived, pitched one of the greatest ketchup ads ever seen...

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Was that Pepsi protest ad really so bad? Hard yes. Hard, irrefutable,...

In case you haven’t seen it, the Pepsi protest ad that caused an online stir this week features – among other things – a protest (though, with its loose crowds, anxiety-free marchers, colour-coded...

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The important questions: Is it okay for adults to watch and enjoy TV shows...

I believe the CW series Gossip Girl to be one of the greatest shows of all time. I am not being facetious. I am a 31-year-old adult who believes Gossip Girl, which chronicles the lives of wealthy...

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Dick Whitman on Walt Whitman: Jon Hamm reads the audiobook of a long lost...

Two shadowy pasts converge in Jon Hamm’s reading of Walt Whitman’s lost novel, Life and Adventures of Jack Engle. Published anonymously in the New York Sunday Dispatch in 1852, it was presented as the...

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