Jon Hamm, Sam Page
When did Mad Men become a horror movie?
Set against the backdrop of panic caused by Richard Speck's 1966 massacre of eight nursing students in Chicago, Sunday's episode, "Mystery Date," was filled with chills (a strangulation, things that go bump in the night at the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce offices, grandma Pauline's butcher knife) and at least one thrill (Joan finally shipping her husband off to Vietnam for good).
Mad Men creator on Season 5 premiere: Megan has power over Don
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[WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from the Season 5 premiere of Mad Men. Read at your own risk.]
Don Draper is... happy?
Mad Men's long-delayed and much-anticipated fifth season premiere finds Don (Jon Hamm) and Megan (Jessica Pare) still in the honeymoon phase of their recent marriage. Don's apparent happiness has one drawback, however: He seems less concerned with work than ever before.
"Don is seemingly becoming a little bit disengaged at work," Hamm tells TVGuide.com. "What happens when you have it all? What happens when you're satisfied? Maybe you lose some of that fire."
Mad Men Season 5: It's every man for himself
But life with Megan isn't all hearts and flowers. Look no further than Don's humiliation when Megan throws him a surprise 40th birthday party, during which she does a sexy song-and-dance better suited for the bedroom than for cocktail hour. So how does the ballad of Don and Megan go? What's up with Roger and Joan's baby (hello, little Kevin!) and why was Lane so obsessed with a photo of another man's wife? We took our burning questions to Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner, who also tells us why Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) and Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) are the ones to watch...
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There's really only one thing Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner wants you to know about Season 5: After 17 months, the show finally returns with a two-hour premiere Sunday.
When pressed, however, the notoriously tight-lipped Weiner offered one nugget about the advertising drama's long-awaited fifth season. "The theme is every man for himself," he tells TVGuide.com.
Mad Men Refresher Course: What's up with Don's love life?
That notion should be nothing new to Don Draper (Jon Hamm), a self-made man who fought to transform himself from Midwestern farm boy Dick Whitman into Madison Avenue's biggest fish. But following his sudden, impulsive proposal...
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It's about time that AMC got the '60s party started again, so it's only fitting that Mad Men's excruciatingly long-awaited two-hour season opener (Sunday, 9/8c), a clever and often bitterly witty piece of writing by series creator Matthew Weiner, is built around a memorable party.
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It's been so long since Mad Men was on the air that it feels as though the show actually shot in the 1960s. We don't care to dwell on the contract negotiations that delayed it. What's important is that Don, Roger, Peggy, Pete, Joan, Betty, Lane, Sally and the rest of that impeccably groomed, highly dysfunctional crowd are back. With Season 5 premiering in a two-hour episode on March 25, TV Guide Magazine sat down with the cast — and creator Matthew Weiner — in Los Angeles to try to pry some secrets out of them and chat about why the wait was worth it.
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Elisabeth Moss and Fred Armisen
It seems being married to a comedian isn't all laughs, at least according to Elisabeth Moss.
For the first time, the Mad Men actress hinted at what went wrong in her marriage to Saturday Night Live star Fred Armisen. "One of the greatest things I heard someone say about him is...
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Jon Hamm
It's appropriate that Jon Hamm's directorial debut — the second episode of Mad Men's fifth season — will air on April Fool's Day, as I hear the Mad cast hammed it up at his expense. When Jon instructed Vincent Kartheiser, who plays Pete, to take three beats before delivering a line, "Vinnie took the...
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Josh Charles and Julianna Margulies
TV's biggest night is here: the Primetime Emmy Awards. Will Julianna Margulies finally win a lead actress Emmy? Or will Connie Britton finally earn Friday Night Lights' ...
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Jon Hamm, Aaron Staton and Elisabeth Moss
It's always anyone's guess which shows and stars will reign at the Emmy Awards (airing Sunday on Fox, 8/7c). Repeat winners are all too common, but longtime also-rans can triumph at any time. Here's a look at the most likely scenarios — and our druthers — in some of the top categories, when appropriate factoring in the episodes the stars submitted....
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Steve Carell, Julianna Margulies
Break out your ballots and put on your thinking caps: It's time to make Emmy predictions.
TV's highest honor will be given out Sunday at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards (8/7c on Fox), where a ton of questions will be answered. Will Mad Men four-peat? Will bridesmaids Steve Carell, Jon Hamm, Hugh Laurie or Michael C. Hall finally become the bride? Will Emmy host Jane Lynch walk away an Emmy winner?
Check out the list of nominees, make your picks and see if they match up with ours.
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