Tag: Mad Men
Don Draper is an Ad, Man
Mad Men, one of the best television shows in history, will always be known as “more than just a show about advertising,” in the same way Friday Night Lights is “more than just a show about football.” And yet Mad...
Lost At Sea, in Space, in the Cloud
Two of my favorite films of recent months, Gravity and All is Lost, have more than a few things in common. Both are basically one-man or one-woman shows about individuals trying to survive in an incomprehensibly vast wilderness. Gravity finds...
The Frame for Watching Mad Men: When Joan sells Johnny
Brian R. Gumm is a licensed minister in the Church of the Brethren, worshiping and periodically ministering in a United Methodist parish in rural Iowa. His telecommuting day job is Distance Learning Technology Analyst for Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg,...
Should Christians Watch Mad Men? A Rejoinder
Editor’s Note: This guest post is by Nick Olson, who writes film reviews at a host of places including Filmwell and Christ and Pop Culture. I have a confession: when watching seasons 1 through 4 of Mad Men a couple...