Is there anywhere in the great landscape of aesthetic confusion a sure guide that would allow us to shun the arid plains of austere and empty formalism, the banal shallows of mediocre uplift and compromise, not to mention the great sunken morasses of foul and pestilent postmodernism, and instead to tread always the balmy highlands…
Tag: Mad Men
New at Bright Lights
I have a tri-parte review up at Bright Lights, “Heavy TV,” trying to shed some light on the multiple phenomena of Breaking Bad, Girls, and Mad Men. The issue itself, NSFW as always, here. A list of my reviews of all of Fred Astaire’s dancing films is here. A list of my reviews of all…
The Uncanny, Albeit Intermittent, Perspicacity of Alan Vanneman
I admit it. I can be perspicacious. A case in point is the television career of Jessica Paré, aka Megan Draper on AMC’s Mad Men. When Megan first appeared as Don’s new secretary, I thought she was too fucking gorgeous to be just a secretary. As soon as I knew she was French, I knew…