Vincent Kartheiser

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  • Mad Men: season five

    TV Review | Ed Williamson | 16th June 2012

    Several times during the interviews before Mad Men's fifth season premiered, we heard the mantra from Matthew Weiner when asked for the season's theme: "When is everything going to get back to normal?" This being Mad Men, this could've meant any number of things: some sort of high-minded allegory for cultural upheaval, a warning not to expect the characters to revert to type, or one of those loose ideas they throw in from time to time that seem meaningless, then significant once you've spent three hours and a couple of Old-Fashioneds thinking about it. Now we've seen the whole thing, it makes a lot of sense.

  • Lane Pryce 3:16 says: "I just whipped your ass"

    TV Video | Ed Williamson | 18th April 2012



    And that's the bottom line: because Lane Pryce said so.

  • Project Mad Men: part three

    TV Feature | Ed Williamson, Ali Gray | 27th March 2012

    In the concluding part of Project Mad Men, we discuss our expectations for season five, starting tonight on Sky Atlantic. If you haven't seen season four all the way through then (a) there are spoilers in here, and (b) get out of our goddamn office and don't come back until you're prepared to take it seriously.

  • Project Mad Men: part two

    TV Feature | Ed Williamson, Ali Gray | 23rd March 2012

    There are two types of people in this world: people who are Don Draper, and people who aren't. In part two of Project Mad Men we focus on the second lot. Losers.

  • Project Mad Men: part one

    TV Feature | Ed Williamson, Ali Gray | 21st March 2012

    You'll all have heard of The Shiznit's Project Mayhem, no doubt. Show Fight Club in a cinema and get people to do stuff for it and bring photos along. That's all well and good, but here's something much more earthy, more real. The journey of two men who each decided to watch four seasons of Mad Men in a concentrated period, then talk about it a bit. We give you Project Mad Men. #projectmadmen

  • Tide yourself over with Mad Men season four and a half

    TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 13th June 2011

    Grrr, no more Mad Men till 2012. This is seemingly down to network bigwigs arguing about stuff. But don't just sit around cursing anyone who's big and/or wears a wig: we've spent literally minutes plotting out an entire 2011 season just for you. Could you maybe put on a suit while you read it? It'll probably help it along.