Jessica Paré

Birth Name:

Jessica Paré

Birth Place:

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Profession

Actress, Soundtrack, Director

What's the Trailer for Mad Men's Final Season Trying to Tell Us?

Are we in the 1970s?

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

What's the Trailer for Mad Men's Final Season Trying to Tell Us?

Mad Men Boss on the Finale's Big Death and the Show's Final Episodes

[WARNING: This story contains spoilers from Sunday's Mad Men finale. Read at your own risk.]As Mad Men heads into its final, seven-episode stretch, it will do so without one of its original characters. Mad Men Finale Recap: How to succeed in business (while actually dying)On Sunday's finale...

Tue, May 27, 2014

Mad Men Boss on the Finale's Big Death and the Show's Final Episodes

Mad Men's Season 7 Premiere: Is It Too Late for Don Draper to Change?

[WARNING: The following story contains spoilers from the Season 7 premiere of Mad Men. Read at your own risk.]"Are you ready? Because I want you to pay attention. This is the beginning of something."Yes, Matthew Weiner, you have our attention. The Mad Men creator kicked off the first half of his advertising drama's final season speaking directly to the audience through the mouth of recurring character Freddie Rumsen (Joel Murray). But it was the next line of Freddie's Don Draper-quality pitch for Accutron watches that reveals what seems to truly be on Mad Men's mind for this episode — and perhaps the remainder of the series."Do you have time to improve your life?"That's certainly a question we imagine Don Draper (Jon Hamm) has been asking himself lately...

Mon, Apr 14, 2014

Mad Men's Season 7 Premiere: Is It Too Late for Don Draper to Change?

Mad Men: Where We Left Off and What's Ahead in the Final Season

The times are always a-changin' on Mad Men. But as the AMC drama kicks off the first half of its final season (Sunday, 10/9c), the show's focus will be on how much (or how little) the characters have grown during the near-decade viewers have been following them. "[This season] is about the consequences in life and if change is possible," creator Matthew Weiner says. "There is a real growth over this last season from what are the material concerns of your life to what are the immaterial concerns."Spring TV: Get scoop on your favorite returning showsLast season focused on ad man Don Draper (Jon Hamm) repeating the mistakes of his past with even more serious consequences. Although Don seems to be truly committed to doing things differently in the early going of the new season, will that make a difference? In other words: Is true change possible, or is it the attempt to change that matters?"That is the question," Weiner says...

Fri, Apr 11, 2014

Mad Men: Where We Left Off and What's Ahead in the Final Season

Weekend TV: Mad Men, Nurse Jackie, Bletchley Return

And so the unnecessarily long goodbye begins for AMC's breakout, breakthrough signature series Mad Men, its final 14 hours being unconscionably broken into two halves over two years, starting Sunday at 10/9c. (Yes, it worked for Breaking Bad, but this isn't that kind of show.) While prolonging the inevitable, and potentially blunting whatever narrative momentum still exists in a most inelegant and desperate-seeming way, it's no wonder the often dazzling opening episode — titled "Time Zones," in a nod to the firm's now-bicoastal focus — is so preoccupied with time.

Fri, Apr 11, 2014