[Via] On this week’s ep, DonDick is still out west being all weird and shabbily dressed, Peggy is even more the shit than before, Pete is even more of a shit than before, and Joan…poor Joan. (UPDATED.)
(x-posted @ my blog) Don Draper has to beat women off with a stick – both on screen and off. Message boards are full of women swooning over the Mad Men protagonist despite his character being emotionally unavailable, unfaithful and secretive. Even feminists. You heard right. Feminists. The women in question offer fairly standard responses. Read More
Spoilers, folks. Given that the series’ creator, Matt Weiner, was a major player behind-the-scenes on The Sopranos, you might expect some thematic overlap. Don Draper, like Tony Soprano, is a conflicted womanizer who has own specific sense of honor (in Don’s case: you may cheat on your wife, but please do take your hat off Read More
