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Home Alone on Mad Men
“It’s 10pm. Do you know where your children are?” When I was growing up in New York, Fox 5 used…
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Family Ties in “Nashville”
We can run, but some ties inevitably bind. Especially where family is concerned, those ties act like rubber bands, snapping…
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Are Pop-Culture Expectations Too High?
In a post for Acculturated earlier this year, I posited that young men of marrying age are held – and…
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Game of Thrones: “A Clash of Cultures”
With the Season 3 finale quickly approaching, HBO’s Game of Thrones presented one of its most riveting episodes to date.…
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The Reality of the So You Think You Can Dance Auditions
Few of us TV watchers really believe the “reality” part of reality-television. We know by now that episodes of Real…
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What’s the Big Deal with Arrested Development?
For Arrested Development fans, the May 26 release of Season 4 on Netflix cannot come soon enough. The show was…
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What “The Office” Can Teach Us About Love
In this final season of The Office (which airs its last episode Thursday night), it’s been heartening to see the…
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Call the Midwife & Back-Alley Abortion
As a general rule, I prefer to maintain a strict separation between my art and my politics. My politics are…
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Is Narcissism a Good Thing?
One of the most controversial plot lines in the Mad Men series has been Joan’s decision to sleep with a…
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Post of the Week: Mad Men and The Sexual Revolution
Ashley E. McGuire gets the nod this week for her exploration of feminism, Mad Men, and the idea of progress.
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