[VIDEO] Sesame Street: Mad Men
Posted: November 10, 2014 Filed under: Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: AMC, Don Draper, Jessica Paré, Mad Men, Roger Sterling, Sesame Street 1 CommentAnd now eMC, the emotional movie channel, presents Mad Men. Mr. Draper is looking for solid ideas on the Happy Honey Bear account, ideas that are going to make him happy about honey.
[VIDEO] Late Night Mad Men Rewind: Megan (Jessica Paré) Sings ‘Zou Bisou Bisou’
Posted: January 15, 2014 Filed under: Art & Culture, Entertainment, Mediasphere | Tags: Don Draper, January Jones, Jessica Paré, Jon Hamm, Mad Men, Manhattan, YouTube, Zou Bisou Bisou 2 CommentsMegan Draper (Jessica Paré) sings Zou Bisou Bisou during Don’s (Jon Hamm) ‘surprise’ birthday party and somehow thought he’d be fine with it. Guess again, babe.
I remember this episode. One of the highlights of season 4 (before Draper went into alcohol-fueled decline in season 5) when Don’s new Manhattan apartment, new Ad Agency, and hot new French-Canadian replacement wife (who sings, too, ooh la la!) looked like the ingredients for professional success and domestic bliss. And Zou Bisou Bisou made a splash, too. The only person in who didn’t like the performance is Don Draper, but everyone else at the party thought it was sexy as hell.
Though I admire January Jones‘ acting, the Betty character was overexposed. When Draper remarried, I welcomed the introduction of the Megan character as wife #2. Besides being more of a 1960s modern girl, let’s face it, actress Jessica Paré is sexy. Even though this marriage is not destined to succeed, either.
Draper, well, he’s a complicated guy.
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I have all four. I’ve been collecting them along the way, though I haven’t added season 5 yet. (the Draper-in-decline ‘bummer’ season) Season Six starts this spring. I can’t wait.
Mad Men – Zou Bisou Bisou (720p) – YouTube

‘Mad Men’ Finale: Both Sides Now
Posted: June 23, 2013 Filed under: Mediasphere | Tags: Don Draper, Jessica Paré, Kiernan Shipka, Mad Men, Megan, PEGGY OLSON, PETE CAMPBELL, Sally Leave a commentSPOILER ALERT: Stop reading if you haven’t seen the finale of “Mad Men.”
I can’t remember a “Mad Men” finale that laid quite so much track for the storylines of the subsequent season. For the show’s penultimate season, that’s appropriate as the saga of Don Draper heads into its final 13 installments.
I have to hand to to Matthew Weiner and Co. I didn’t see Don Draper’s confessional moves coming, even though of course in hindsight there were plenty of hints. Indeed one of the most powerful moments of season six was the fearless Sally Draper looking her father in the eye and telling him “I don’t know anything about you” in the wake of the experience with creepy “Aunt Ida.”
Don is obviously on a mission to change that in the season six finale, “In Care Of,” written by Carly Wray (a writers assistant this season who’s having her “42nd Street” moment with the opportunity to co-write the finale ) and Weiner and also helmed by Weiner.