Mad MenRecap: Investments

Mad Men Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. He is, so to speak, a man without a country. Pete tells Don he used to carry a notebook full of ideas. Nobody had ever told him that before, and now he wonders if its true. The Campbells are upper-crust by name but not by tax bracket. The family used to be loaded, he says, but Petes grandfather dropped it all in 29....

May 21, 2020 · 3 min · 484 words · Zachary Lopez

Mad MenRecap: Nannies and Eggs

Mad Men Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Smoke Gets in Your Eyeswas set mainly in the workplace. Put another egg in it, says Roger, seated next to Mona. When she balks, he insists that one egg is good, two is better. But the ladies room is more than a room and more than a phrase. Its a prism revealing new facets of the action....

May 21, 2020 · 5 min · 904 words · Diana Rogers

Mad MenRecap: Special Angel

Mad Men Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Mad Mencharacters often feel trapped. This episode is about that sense of confinement, and the potential downsides of escape. The former model Betty, nicknamed Birdie, is at the center of this episode. She fantasizes about abandoning domestic drudgery and being prized for her beauty once more. Just sit and smile and let it go until youre in a box?...

May 21, 2020 · 2 min · 403 words · Ronald Mosley

Mad MenRecap: What Do Women Want?

Mad Men Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. New York is Israel, Israel is Utopia, Utopia is Babylon, and Babylon is New York. He wants to pick her brain about Israel, the place and the idea. Why arent you there? Israel, she says, is more of an idea than a place. Utopia, Don says. Rachel says she learned in college thatutopiais a Greek word whose meaning changes with its pronunciation....

May 21, 2020 · 2 min · 370 words · Kevin Conley

Mad MenSeries Premiere Recap: It’s Toasted

Mad Men Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes starts with a definition of Mad Men. After a pause it adds, They coined it. Control of the image. The tale is told in accordance with the rules of the society in which it takes place. Screenwriter and series creator Matthew Weiner and director Alan Taylor are controlling storytellers....

May 21, 2020 · 5 min · 1006 words · Richard Larson

Patrick Radden Keefe Hopes Scorpions Fans Can Still EnjoyWind of Change

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Myfirst book,Chatter, wasaboutthe world of espionage. And what was really interesting was that shed documented this history basically as it regards high culture. This is the first time youve done a podcast. What else does the form allow you to do in comparison to other kinds of reporting?Everything. Theres something about this story that almost has the ring of being too good to be true....

May 21, 2020 · 2 min · 263 words · Casey Lopez

Please Do Not Show These Memes to Lana Del Rey

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. It has been quite a day for Miss Elizabeth Woolridge Grant. Del Rey asked the internet. Feast your eyes on the glories of the internet and yo do not tell Lizzy Grant about this. Shes made it clear thatshe doesnt like the Karen comparisons. Plus,she wont not fuck you the fuck up. come outside, lana....

May 21, 2020 · 1 min · 171 words · Sarah Jones

The Weeknd and Doja Cat Team Up for ‘In Your Eyes’ Remix

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Newly minted chart-topper Doja Cathas decided to lend her talents toan upstart comedy writer named Abel. 1 with Say So (Remix) featuring Nicki Minaj. Related Tags:

May 21, 2020 · 1 min · 41 words · Erin Donaldson

This Week in Comedy Podcasts:IconographyHighlights Anthony Bourdain

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. The comedy-podcast universe is ever-expanding, not unlike theuniverseuniverse. Were here to make it a bit smaller, a bit more manageable. Each week, our crack team of podcast enthusiasts and specialists and especially enthusiastic people will pick their favorites. We hope to have your ears permanently plugged with the best in aural comedy. The term BDE is also reappropriated from Pete Davidson to Bourdain, BDEs original inspiration....

May 21, 2020 · 1 min · 205 words · Chad Haynes

What Hath the Snyder Cut Released?

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. In retrospect, it was inevitable. Soon, youre kicking yourself for not seeing this certainty sooner. Jesus,you think.It really happened. They really released theSnyder Cut. For someone who doesnt spend an exorbitant amount of time on social media, this news means nothing. Then, bada-bing, WB announces yesterday that the rabble-rousers had won. HBO Max will debut the film sometime in 2021....

May 21, 2020 · 2 min · 300 words · Miguel Ellis

XO, Oh No: HBO Max’sGossip GirlNow Won’t Arrive until 2021

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. HBO Maxs eagerly-awaitedGossip Girlrebootwill have to be eagerly awaited a while longer. Gossip Girlis hardly the only scripted series being delayed because of the pandemic, of course. Nonetheless,HBO Maxwill still be packed with first-run series during its first six months. Kristen Bell isonce again on boardas the narrator. More From This Series Tags:

May 21, 2020 · 1 min · 68 words · Ann Robinson

14 Moments FromThe Big Flower FightThat Will Soothe Your Weary Soul

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Are the giant floral sculptures made by the ten teams of designers a little ridiculous? Sure.Thats the fun part. Come, stare at pretty plants for eight episodes! Come, be moved to tears by a three-meter orangutan made out of grass! What a legitimately insane sequence of words. Honestly, why arent we building more domes in more countrysides?...

May 20, 2020 · 3 min · 464 words · Michael Mills

Dead to MeCreator Liz Feldman Talks Tropes, Twists, and That Finale Shocker

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection. Spoilers ahead forDead to Meseasons one and two. 1 on the list: What to do with Steves body?) I want people to read into it what they want. I want you to have your own feeling about why that happened, she said. I dont want to tell you that youre wrong, because youre not. Obviously, that final moment catapulted us into a very different set of circumstances....

May 20, 2020 · 4 min · 750 words · Stephen Castro