Season 5
Television
The Walking Dead: Season 5, Episode 1 – No Sanctuary Review
The Walking Dead Season 5 Premiere Delivers Brutality, Violence, and Gripping Storytelling in a Way Only TWD Could The Walking Dead is back and in a big way. Not going to bother with needless exposition, if you haven’t caught up to the season 5 premiere please be warned that this review is full of summary […]
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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 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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