Mad Men Season Seven: “The Monolith”

“Oh, believe me: there’s always a hierarchy.” -Roger

Tonight’s episode was a two fold story–the A plot was All Don all the time. The B plot, which we’ll discuss first–was Roger discovering that though she seems far more put together, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Everyone who guessed the other week that Margaret was going to join a cult, pat yourself on the back. You were close. A…

Mad Men Season Seven: “A Day’s Work”

A days work for Don–hitting snooze until 12:30 in the afternoon, drinking away the next few hours waiting for Dawn to stop by with the dirt for him to feed off of. Hell of a life for what Cutler calls “our collective ex wife.”

Dateline: Valentine’s Day 1969. This is a banner day. It is the day Joan finally gets the promotion in full she earned a season and a half ago when she got that partner…

Mad Men Season Seven “Time Zones”

““He was thirsty. He died of thirst. His company sent him to a hospital. I was supposed to be part of the cure somehow, and all I did was observe. I thought he was really getting better and a doctor told me he would be dead in a year. They all would be. I’m going to close my eyes now.” -Lee

Dateline: January 1969 (And there’s Nixon getting inaugurated.) We open our final season of Mad Men(first…

More Mad Men Season 7 Pics

I should have known. Mad Men loves to drib and drab out their promotions. Over the weekend, they continued to add to the collection of “Mad Men On A Plane” stills.

The good news: We get a much better shot of Peggy’s outfit, and she’s in the forefront with all the other guys from Sterling Draper behind her. (Note Harry still favors the scarves and Stan’s still in a shaggy jacket.) But they are…