Cheers: Diary of a Mad Housewife

• Aug 11, 2008 02:13 AM ET
• by Bruce Fretts

Cheers to January Jones for her deceptively complex performance in Mad Men. Her work as homemaker Betty Draper may have been shamefully overlooked by the Emmys (along with the rest of Mad's women), but her portrayal has only grown subtler in the sublime AMC drama's second season. Whether she's quietly but firmly rebuffing her fellow equestrian's advances or playing the perfect bright and shiny "better half" at one of husband Don's business dinners, Jones lets just enough light shine through her nearly opaque exterior to let us see the human being inside. She's no mere desperate housewife.

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