Mad Men “The Crash”: An Expert Opinion
While this episode opens with a wild joyride, I can’t help but wonder if Don Draper will ever experience the full crash promised by the show’s ope
Author: Jesse McLean
Jesse McLean has written TV and film criticism for Pop Matters, Movie Entertainment Magazine and published "Kings of Madison Avenue: The Unofficial Guide to Mad Men" with ECW Press. Given sufficient prompting, he will make you a Vodka Gimlet but only if you suffer through one of his dancing routines, which lack technical grace but brim with pizazz.
Mad Men “For Immediate Release”: An Expert Opinion
Mad Men “For Immediate Release”: An Expert Opinion In an episode that saw a rekindling of sorts between Don and Megan Draper, I present a brief snippet of
Mad Men: “To Have and To Hold”: An Expert’s To-Do List
Mad Men “To Have and to Hold”: An Expert Opinion Previous seasons have seen a slow burn with a dramatic donkey-kick by the third episode. Season six has s
Mad Men “The Collaborators”–Dirty Little Spy: An Expert Opinion
At first blush, the second episode of season six is all about sex as currency. Pete making tacit arrangements to exchange Broadway tickets for Hair for a rend
Mad Men “The Phantom”: An Expert Opinion
There are a number of nominees for the titular Ghost Who Walks in this episode–most notably the sorely missed Lane Pryce. While cheap dramatics have
Mad Men: “The Other Woman” An Expert Opinion
I have been sick for what feels like a month so I could be forgiven thinking that the most recent episode was less the culminating chord in a season about to
Mad Men: “At the Codfish Ball”–An Expert Opinion
I have settled into a habit this season, one that I suspect is not unknown to fellow viewers, but certainly is unknown to viewers of any other show–I don
Mad Men: “Far Away Places”–An Expert Opinion
Mad Men: ‘Far Away Places’— An Expert Opinion Far away places with strange sounding names Far away over the sea Those far away places with the s
Mad Men Signal An Expert Opinion
I like Pete Campbell. I don’t know why. If I met a guy like him, and I’m sure that I have, I’d have to stifle an urge to punch him in the so
Mad Men “Mystery Date” — An Expert Opinion
‘The evil that men do lives after them,’Act Three, Scene Two, Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare. ‘There’s my Don Draper. I like him
