Mad Men has been off the air since October 2010–a lengthy absence prolonged in part due to protracted negotiations between creator Matthew Weiner and AMC over the show’s budget. Perhaps Mr. Weiner could have cut a few characters to save money, after all? If there happens to be another struggle before season six, we have a few suggestions!
No reason why she’s really relevant anymore—but maybe she’s not even in this episode at aaaaaaall! Is just teasing about the notion of a spoiler, itself, a spoiler?
We won’t reveal if it’s about Johnson’s plans for Vietnam, the ascendant Nixon campaign, or a triumph-of-makeup flash-forward season where all the guests at a party trade barbs how Bill Clinton should resign to spare the country the nightmare of an impeachment trial. Either way, we’re tired of wondering if Americans were ever so innocent!
Save on the show’s guest-star budget by making a shoestring ad agency run by a bunch of alcoholics as successful as it, theoretically, ought to be!
Well, the only thing we can say about Joan is [spoilers redacted].
Didn’t he used to be, like, a short-story writer? Why did we presume he’d quit the company?
When, exactly, was that Surgeon General’s warning? Couldn’t AMC just, like, have Don Draper meet a young C. Everett Koop and save a whole bundle on weird fake actors’ herbal cigarettes?
Honestly, did YOU remember the Drapers had more than one child?
Getting writers who can write for this enigmatic recurring character has got to be pretty expensive!
