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All the Mad Men and all the Mad Women are having epiphanies


No live-blogging of tonight’s episode because of the holiday. Feel free to use this as an open thread.
I was an altar boy from the time I was in fifth grade until just about halfway through my first year of high school, when getting up at six o’clock on a Sunday morning became as physically [...]

Mad Men: Everybody Into The Typing Pool (Liveblog The New Girl)


As fun as it is to get lost in, and quibble with, the exhaustive amount of period detail in Mad Men, that’s not quite where I come from on it. Right or wrong (or more to the point, right AND wrong), the period details of Mad Men are meant, I think, to frame the story [...]

They rob banks


Ok, get your hands up and don’t turn around. It’s Wednesday Night at the Movies again here at newcritics. Empty your pockets of comments and nobody’ll get hurt.
Few thoughts to mull over while we wait to get started. First, here’s part of a post I wrote way back in April when I [...]

“They become their parents.”


Greetings. Relax. You have not been drafted. I’m just welcoming you to the first open thread in our new newcritics series of open threads, Wednesday Night at the Movies. The thread officially opens at 10 PM, Eastern. But if you’re here a little early, don’t be chagrined. Step right [...]