Hi (for the final time?), and welcome back to The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men. Miss Rim did a beautiful job bidding farewell to Betty with her writeup of “The Milk and Honey Route” last week, and for a while I … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: “Person to Person” (S7E14)

Hello everyone! Miss Rim here, welcome back to The Carousel: An Increasingly Sporadic Revisitation of Mad Men! I’d love to tell you all that the irregularity of these reviews of late is because we lost the Secor Laxative account, or that … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: “The Runaways” (S7E5) and “Waterloo” (S7E7)

Hi, all! Miss Rim here. I got sick and Spiny got busy at work, so sorry about the delay. No matter what your particular favorite episode / season of Mad Men may be, I think most of us will agree … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: “At the Codfish Ball” / “Lady Lazarus” (S5E7, S5E8)

Apologies for the delay (not posting this on the usual Tuesday or Wednesday), there was chewing gum on my pubis. Hi! It’s “Signal 30”! Our first-place winner in the Season 5 poll, though since we’re doing the season chronologically this … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: “Signal 30” (S5E5)

Hi everyone, and welcome back to The Carousel! I’m excited to talk about this episode, but orders of business: 1) While Miss Rim and I adopted the common 12-episode numbering of this season in our synopses for the poll last … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: Season 5, Episode 4: “Mystery Date”

Hi again, and welcome back to Revisiting Mad Men as we enter what many (most?) would consider Mad Men‘s peak. What makes it so, aside from a series of astonishing, cohesive standalone episodes like “Signal 30”, “Far Away Places”, “The Other … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: Season 5 Poll / General Discussion

“The Suitcase” is one of the best episodes of Mad Men, if not the best. We’ve decided to do something a little different for this review – a good old fashioned Crosstalk! I hope it’s as fun for you as it is … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: Season 4, Episode 7: “The Suitcase”

Hi again, folks, and welcome back to The Carousel! This week I’m reviewing two of the episodes that tied for third place in our upvote poll, “The Good News” and “The Summer Man”. Why is no one reviewing “The Chrysanthemum … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: S4E3 and S4E8 (“The Good News”, “The Summer Man”)

Hi there, surprisingly loyal readers! One of these days we’re going to have to come up with a smoother way to introduce these discussions. Look. I don’t feel like I have to hype this discussion up all that much. You … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: S3 Finale (“Shut the Door. Have a Seat.”)

The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: S3E3 and S3E6 (aka, “My Old Kentucky Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency”) Programming Note: This week we’re combining 2 of the top 4 most upvoted episodes, in order to be on track to discuss Season … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: S3E3 and S3E6 (“My Old Kentucky Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency”)

The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men – Season 3 General Discussion / Poll Welcome back to The Carousel, our pretentiously-named Mad Men rewatch series! It’s March, the month we’ll be discussing Season 3! Because I got some questions last time, I … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: Season 3 Discussion / Poll

Discussing Season 2, Episode 11: “The Jet Set” Hi again, gals and/or fellas! We’re onto the second-place winner, “The Jet Set”, from our Season 2 poll. A handful of people said in the Season 2 discussion that this was the … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: The Jet Set (S2E11)

Revisiting Mad Men: S2E7, “The Gold Violin”, and S2E9, “Six Month Leave” Welcome back, everybody! We had our little poll again and tied for third place were “The Gold Violin” and “Six Month Leave”. I’m quite pleased with this, as … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men: S2E7 and S2E9

The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men Hi again, lovely people! We are back Revisiting Mad Men – namely, discussing the first two of four poll-winning episodes from our Season 1 discussion. I want to thank everyone for starting so many great conversations in … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men (S1E7 and S1E8 Discussion)

The Carousel: Introduction, Season 1 Discussion and Poll Girls, fellas: welcome to The Carousel (Revisiting Mad Men)! This will be a celebration of Mad Men’s seven seasons during the seven months leading up to the ten-year anniversary of its premiere on July … Continue reading The Carousel: Revisiting Mad Men (Season 1 Discussion / Poll)