AMC Outdoes Itself
If you didn’t think AMC could be any more brilliant, you were wrong. The movie channel, home to Mad Men and Breaking Bad, two of the best shows on television, just acquired the rights to the entire...
View ArticleAMC: America’s Man Channel?
Move over, Spike. The Maxim-esque TV network, which launched in 2003 as the self-proclaimed premier network for men—and runs edited versions of your favorite curse-laden movies (Goodfellas without the...
View ArticleWould You Murder the Man Who Killed Your Daughter?
(Spoiler Alert: This article discusses central plot twists in the AMC television series The Killing.) What would you do if you had the opportunity to get your hands on the person you thought murdered...
View ArticleTV: The Walking Dead Shambles Your Way For Season Two
They're baaaaaaack … Another nausea-inducing photo of great make up work at CBR, linked below [Source: Comic Book Resources]
View ArticleGaming: The Walking Dead Shambles Into Your Living Room [@akilshohen]
Telltale Games The Walking Dead, based on the long running comic book, is due to be released sometime this summer according the company's CEO. Being sent to certification to Microsoft and Sony this...
View ArticleWalking Dead Season Finale – Will AMC Fail Men Again?
Joanna Schroeder thinks AMC is failing men in its portrayal of masculinity in the zombie thriller The Walking Dead. Tonight’s a big night for TV nerds like myself, as The Walking Dead, AMC’s wildly...
View ArticleMad Men: 3/23
Why does everyone want to be Don Draper? He’s good… good at the ad game, at seduction, at drinking to recrimination. The radiant gleam of 1960s nostalgia is revealed in all its toxic, radium allure on...
View ArticleI Knew Don Draper–A Whole Town Full
Steve Jaeger loves and hates Don Draper, and he can’t help but see the complexities of Mad Men in his own boyhood memories. I came a bit late to Mad Men. I didn’t learn about the show until the first...
View ArticleSeven Deadly Sins of the 1960s
Matthew Weiner, creator of the AMC show Mad Men, explores feminist issues in the male-dominated world of Madison Avenue advertising circa 1960. This piece originally ran on the Wesleyan University...
View ArticleSuicide and Mad Men
Jake DiMare takes a look at the male dominated epidemic of suicide through the lens of AMC’s Mad Men. I felt nearly breathless after last night’s hauntingly beautiful episode of Mad Men. Perhaps you...
View ArticleOpen Thread: Zombie Talk – The Walking Dead and More
Open Discussion: This open thread is dedicated to all things Z-related. First, let’s get this out of the way: What did you think of the season premiere of The Walking Dead? What story lines from the...
View ArticleZombies Ate My Baby: 7 Parenting Lessons from The Walking Dead
Dan Coxon prepares his children for their post-apocalyptic future with advice from the AMC hit TV show, ‘The Walking Dead.’ Being a parent is hard. We all know that. Sleepless nights, hours spent...
View ArticleThe Collaborators: The Mad Men Guide to Raising Children
Ben Tanzer recaps Mad Men’s third episode of Season 6, and comments on the ways in which raising kids is just like being a character in AMC’s hit series. Mad Men is correctly noted for its spot on...
View ArticleWatching History Unfold Through ‘Mad Men’
The most recent episode of Mad Men reminded Steve Jaeger of what it was like in America when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. Last night’s episode of Mad Men centered around the...
View ArticleMrs. Antihero
We love to watch bad guys on TV. Why do we love to hate their wives almost as much? “I guess that’s why gangsters have molls.” That’s what scumbag attorney Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) said to his...
View ArticleMad Men Episode 9: Is There a Cure For Don Draper’s Sex Addiction?
Joanna Schroeder recaps Episode 9 of Mad Men, and explains the ways in which great television is as much about our own hopes and dreams as it is about the storyline and characters. - I always fall...
View ArticleWalter White and What’s Wrong with the American Dream
“Breaking Bad’s” antihero has attained that “admirable” goal, but not in the way he imagined. The supposed attainability of the American Dream is the goal that drives this country. If you work hard...
View Article‘Breaking Bad’ and the Foolishness of Masculinity
The male characters of AMC’s hit series deconstructed. Is male pride a destructive influence? Breaking Bad is but a few episodes from completion and it’s hard to say anything about it that has not...
View ArticleEastbound and Down: Another Middle-Aged White Guy Breaks Bad
The return of the middle-aged white man crisis. Eastbound and Down—the HBO comedy about a former major-league pitcher trying to regain the glory of his youth–seemingly has very little in common with...
View ArticleThe Walking Dead’s “Us” Episode Sets Up Season Four’s Finale
Tweet After the trauma of “The Grove” we get a small reprieve and Alex Yarde reviews “Us” before the season finale. — AMC’s The Walking Dead has always been the best at spoon feeding its viewers a...
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