Mad Men

If we, like Betty Suarez and Peggy Olson, possess talent and ambition but not fashion-model looks, is there hope for us in image-conscious workplaces?

From coffee shops to reception desks, from retail counters to runways, how do TV depictions of young women at work ring true, and how do they fall short?

The Mad Men fans among us will never forget "The Other Woman." In a season filled with beautiful, heart-wrenching, affecting episodes, "The Other Woman" stands out as one of the best, and we aren't the only ones who think so: The episode is nominated for Emmys in the acting, writing, and directing categories this year. Not only that, the Daily Beast is publishing a two-part oral history on the episode with Christina Hendricks and Matthew Weiner, part one of which went up today.

Like Harry Crane in search of a new office, last night's season finale left us wanting more.


Move over, parachute company.

For those of you who've reading our weekly Mad Men coverage here at Bitch, fear not: we'll recap Sunday's season finale (sniff), but we'll be covering True Blood too! Because a soap-y, action-packed show like TB doesn't really merit a 1,500-word analysis each week, we'll be live tweeting each episode at @BitchMediaLive and posting a quick rehash each Monday. Follow along!


They wanna do bad things with you.

Calling all Mad Men fans! Christina Hendricks, known to us all as Joan Holloway/Harris, is on the cover of next week's Hollywood Reporter.

Where to start with last night's Mad Men?

What an episode! We laughed, we cried, we called for Pete Campbell's head on a platter, and then we cried some more.


Seriously, somebody kill this guy.

The Christmas episode of Mad Men put us in a holiday mood:


And by "holiday mood" we mean a state of Don-and-Joan-induced euphoria.

We're thankful for last night's episode of Mad Men—whipped cream, Manischewitz and all.


Nobody wakes Don Draper up on a Sunday just to throw their failures in his face.