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Mad Men
Your guide to Season 5, with self-indulgent anecdotes.
Mad Men
Here There Be Monsters
By:
Ken Honeywell
“It’s the idea you love. You have a vision, and the only thing standing between your vision and its realization is that somebody has to convince the client to give you the money to make it real.” Ken Honeywell has ideas about Mad Men.
Mad Men
Going to War
By:
Ken Honeywell
“It was a confusing time to be a kid; maybe it’s always confusing to be a kid, but looking back through the lens of Mad Men, it seems the late ’60s were especially so.” Ken Honeywell grows up.
Mad Men
Searching for a Way Out
By:
Ken Honeywell
“You work with a bunch of bright, talented people who are looking for better ways to sell Carnation Instant Breakfast to the masses; meanwhile, beefy policemen with nightsticks are beating people in the streets. Rome burns; you fiddle.” Ken Honeywell rosins up the bow.
Mad Men
Believe It Or Not
By:
Ken Honeywell
“We’re not sure what’s real and what’s not, and it makes for an unsettling and ultimately confusing hour of television.” Ken Honeywell leans into the confusion.
Mad Men
Stay Right Where You Are
By:
Ken Honeywell
“The CGC team is moving into SCDP’s offices, and everything is a mess. Boxes are stacked everywhere and people are stacked like boxes. Joanie’s just stacked.” Ken Honeywell has the latest Mad Men news.
Mad Men
Reunited (And It Feels So Good)
By:
Ken Honeywell
“That’s the trouble we’ve wandered (weindered?) into so far in Season 6. Mad Men, for the first time ever, has seemed flat.” Ken Honeywell‘s not buying (some of) it.
Mad Men
Here Comes the Flood
By:
Ken Honeywell
“The loss of a great man leaves a great void that someone must fill; terrorist bombings and school shootings and weather disasters can inspire their survivors–I include all of us–to try to prevent them from happening again.” Ken Honeywell says “The Flood” is a nice return to form.
Mad Men
An Opening for the Competition
By:
Ken Honeywell
“I have no intention of flipping off Matthew Weiner, but I can always walk away. Mad Men still has me, but I do require a little cuddling.” Ken Honeywell breaks down the latest episode.
Mad Men
Keeping it French
By:
Ken Honeywell
“The client-agency relationship is just like any coupling: there are power plays and capitulations and reversals. If the relationship is going to survive, you need to figure out how to work together so that both sides get what they want.” Ken Honeywell recaps the latest episode of Mad Men.
Mad Men
The Secret Message of All Advertising
By:
Ken Honeywell
“if you hoped that things could only get sunnier for your favorite Mad Men, you get your wish–sort of.” Rest in peace: Ken Honeywell says Mad Men is all about death.