A detailed analysis of “My Old Kentucky Home,” the third episode of AMC’s Mad Men’s third season.
Entries from August 2009
August 31, 2009
Hung – “This is America or Fifty Bucks”
“This is America or Fifty Bucks”
August 30th, 2009
More than any episode before it, “This is America or Fifty Bucks” lives and dies by the show’s timeliness in the midst of an economic crisis. With Jessica struggling to adapt to Ron’s newfound money problems, and Ray struggling to make money in order to rebuild his house, [...]
August 30, 2009
Winter is finally Coming: Anticipating HBO’s Game of Thrones
Winter is finally Coming:
Anticipating HBO’s Game of Thrones
When I was roughly 14, I read The Lord of the Rings. I enjoyed it, so my parents went to a bookstore ahead of Christmas and asked for something similar. The employee suggested A Game of Thrones, the first book in George R.R. Martin’s epic fantasy series A [...]
August 30, 2009
Season Finale: Royal Pains – “Wonderland”
“Wonderland”
August 27th, 2009
If you were quite a hawk-eyed reader of the blog, you might have seen a few weeks ago that I was convinced Royal Pains was ending its first season when Burn Notice ended the first half of its third, with a relationship-driven cliffhanger regarding the pairing of Hank and Jill. I was mistaken, [...]
August 24, 2009
Season Finale: Nurse Jackie – “Health Care and Cinema”
“Health Care and Cinema”
August 24th, 2009
In its first season, Nurse Jackie has struggled to come to terms with what show, precisely, it wants to be. This is not to say that the result of this identity crisis has been an unentertaining piece of television, as in many ways the show’s tonal inconsistency is intricately linked [...]
August 24, 2009
Mad Men – “Love Among the Ruins”
“Love Among the Ruins”
August 24th, 2009
New York is in decay.
Don Draper’s trip to California was highly transformative on an individual level, but as an ad man it appears to have affirmed what he knew before. In California, he tells the people from Madison Square Garden, everything is shiny and new: it is a land of [...]
August 24, 2009
Hung – “Thith ith a Prothetic or You Cum Just Right”
“Thith ith a Prothetic or You Cum Just Right”
August 24th, 2009
“I left a boy to marry a man.”
I’ve been enjoying Hung’s first season, and have especially enjoyed the recent series of episodes. Jemma’s entrance has given us a really intriguing point of view into how Ray’s new employment is changing his own life, and seeing [...]
August 22, 2009
Royal Pains – “Nobody’s Perfect”
“Nobody’s Perfect”
August 20th, 2009
There’s really two trajectories for USA Network series as they approach the end of their first seasons.
The first is that they find a second gear, discovering another level of their structure where they are able to tell bigger and better stories. Burn Notice, of course, is the quintessential example of this, finding [...]
August 21, 2009
Season Premiere: Project Runway Season 6 – “Episode One”
“Welcome to Los Angeles!”
August 20th, 2009
After being caught in legal hell for about six months, Project Runway is finally back. Amidst swirling speculation about how the show would change, and whether it would be able to retain its success jumping to a new (and older-skewing) network, the show debuted to the series’ highest premiere ratings [...]
August 21, 2009
Season 6 Premiere: Top Chef Las Vegas – “Sin City Vice”
“Sin City Vice”
Season 6, Episode 1
You might remember earlier this summer when I suggested that I would be spending my free time this summer writing about my first run-through of HBO’s super-serious Western Deadwood, but the lack of posts on the subject would indicate that this plan changed. You see, things got busy at various [...]
