Joan Holloway-Harris
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Mad Men: Season 5, Episode 11 – ‘The Other Woman’ Review and Synopsis
The episode opens with SCDP throwing around ideas about the Jaguar advertising campaign. Peggy is left out of the action and watches as her male counterparts feast on lobster courtesy of Roger. One of the reps from Jaguar wants to sleep with Joan in exchange for throwing business SCDP’s way. ‘Why didn’t you tell him […]
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Mad Men: Season 5, Episode 10 – ‘Christmas Waltz’ Review and Synopsis
We discover that Lane is a tax cheat and apparently has not paid his taxes to the sovereign back home in England. A friend tells him that it can all go away if he pays $8,000 in back taxes which is a massive amount. When his wife Rebecca asks him what he is doing awake […]
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Mad Men: Season 5, Episode 8 – ‘Lady Lazarus’ Review and Synopsis
We join Pete on the Long Island Railroad along with Howard the insurance salesman who informs Pete that he is keeping an apartment in Manhattan and having an affair with a younger woman. Since we remember Pete’s issues with virility and dominance, it is not surprising that an older man is keeping a pride while […]
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Mad Men: Season 5, Episode 7 – ‘At the Codfish Ball’ Review and Synopsis
Sally and Glen have remained friends, even though she has moved away and he is apparently in some sort of private school. Pauline trips over the phone cord and hurts herself while bellowing through the halls for Sally and Bobby to prepare the dinner table for her. Megan’s family comes to visit in order to […]
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Mad Men: Season 5, Episode 5 – ‘Signal 30’ Review and Synopsis
Opening with a montage of car wrecks, we notice Pete Campbell studying up for his driver’s license while eyeing a young blond girl at the same time. A dripping faucet in the kitchen keeps him from going to sleep and it is already evident that this is probably going to be a Pete themed episode. […]
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Mad Men: Season 5, Episode 4 – ‘Mystery Date’ Review and Synopsis
This episode begins with an awkward encounter in the elevator between Don, Megan and one of his old flames, Andrea. Unlike Betty, Megan asserts her position as Don’s woman and does not back down in the face of his past. A focal point of the episode is the story of the Chicago nurse massacre at […]
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Mad Men: Season 5, Episode 9 – ‘Dark Shadows’ Review and Synopsis
This episode opens with a shot of Betty weighing out her cheese to accompany her morning toast to the soundtrack of a thunderstorm. This is likely as a part of a new diet regimen and Betty’s absence from the past few episodes makes her return a remarkable thing. Back at SCDP, Don reviews the work […]
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