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  • Ebony Comes to the Ivory World of Sterling Cooper

    Tonight’s brief opening shot of Pete Campbell – possibly the single whitest character on television – thumbing through Ebony Magazine is a signal that the issue of race is about to break though the consciousness of Sterling Cooper. Pete’s study of Ebony (presumably for ideas on how advertisers could reach consumers of color) brought back striking ...
    Posted to TV Club by walter dellinger on October 4, 2009

  • Peggy and Duck?

    “Why would Peggy?” is the less interesting question. Why would Duck? He could and would have his way with more conventionally appealing women if the encounter were really about sex. Of course, there were admirable men who would have been drawn to Peggy for her intelligence and ambition. Duck, however, is not one of them. He is more likely ...
    Posted to TV Club by walter dellinger on September 28, 2009

  • "We don't know who he is..."

    Don’s closing words to Sally at the end of the episode could serve as a leitmotif for the entire Mad Men series. Cuddling baby Gene, he says, “We don’t know who he is and we don’t know who he’s going to be. And that’s a wonderful thing.” If Mad Men were a novel, this would be the frontispiece quotation. It sums up Don Draper, the ...
    Posted to TV Club by walter dellinger on September 21, 2009

  • Does Slate Get to Pre Screen?

    How is Patrick Keefe able to post 2 minutes after the episode is finished airing?
    Posted to TV Club by walter dellinger on September 14, 2009

  • Re: Who is the father of Betty's Baby?

    All nice points. But one push back on Sal. The issue being debated by some is whether Sal can be forgiven for expoliting his wife Kitty and stealing her best years by drafting her as a beard. The assumption is that Sal was conscious of being gay, and concealed it from Kitty. I think that once again fails to understand the depth of denial in ...
    Posted to TV Club by walter dellinger on September 9, 2009

  • Re: Who is the father of Betty's Baby?

    Jessie's theory is more plausible than mine. Gene's reaction would have been nuclear if he actually knew Don was a deserter. His ''ask you pop'' is much more in keeping with his sense that he just doesn't know anything about this man with no people who married his daughter. What you did during ''the war'' is central to someone like Gene. ...
    Posted to TV Club by walter dellinger on September 9, 2009

  • Re: Who is the father of Betty's Baby?

    Thanks Nancy. You are right. Darn. I hate it when facts get in the way of interesting analysis. W.
    Posted to TV Club by walter dellinger on September 9, 2009

  • Who is the father of Betty's Baby?

    This show is all about issues of identity, about one character after another who is different from the person we and others take them to be. 1. Who’s Your Daddy? This theme may continue when the next important character is born. Do we really know the identity the father of the baby that Betty is carrying? Is it Don, or is it the man from ...
    Posted to TV Club by walter dellinger on September 9, 2009

  • Don Reinvents himself -- and his products

    These wonderful postings -- both by the trio of clubbers and many readers -- have so far failed to link up Don's personal and professional lives. What makes Don so successful as an ad man is his ability time and again to reinvent, reimagine and reconceptualize the product he is asked to promote. His whole life prepared him for this: he has been ...
    Posted to TV Club by walter dellinger on August 25, 2009