An Alan Smithee Column

That terrible thing that we all knew was going to happen? Yeah, it happened. Now no longer just a knowing chuckle we shared when we saw a close-up on the date on Margaret Sterling's wedding invitation, That Terrible Thing finally...

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An Alan Smithee Column

Eleven down, just two more to go. Go grab your own shoebox full of secret, bring it here, and then let's all move on to this week's Power Rankings together while rummaging through the evidence of our deceptions, shall we?...

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An Alan Smithee Column

Week Ten! We can see the home stretch from here, but as Matthew Weiner's bored, dissatisfied thoroughbreds gallop joylessly towards the finish line, they still have some time to stop along the way and couple with a filly to ease...

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An Alan Smithee Column

It's hard to believe we're already nine weeks deep into the third season of Mad Men. In the words of some filthy hippie at whom Don Draper would sneer while taking a meaningful drag off his cigarette, "What a long,...

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An Alan Smithee Column

After a couple of weeks in which Mad Men's plotting raced along like two drug-addled hippie grifters atop a John Deere Lawn Tractor, shredding toes and cold-cocking disillusioned ad men with reckless abandon, the show took a step back and...

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An Alan Smithee Column

In the 48-year history of Movieline's Mad Men Power Rankings, never have we been confronted with a week with so many plot twists, power plays and sweaty go-arounds in need of evaluation. Indeed, last night was a sleepless one, spent...

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An Alan Smithee Column

It was an evening of new arrivals, anxious dads-to-be, and comely elementary school teachers begging to be the next notch in a certain ad man's fedora band. It was, to be sure, a good evening. So join us, if you...

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An Alan Smithee Column

Join us, if you will, for another leisurely stroll around the Sterling Cooper offices to see who's up, who's down, and who's running in place, pausing occasionally to chat with the gals in the secretarial pool or to press a...

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