Mad Men
Look, I love Mad Men. LOVE. And I’m willing to buy that Matthew Weiner is some kind of genius. But I’m getting kind of sick of reading interviews with the cast that repeatedly invoke the show’s creator like he is some kind of oracle, you know? It starts to seem like they are all brainwashed.
Jezebel flips through Time Out New York’s sex issue from 1996—a year “when business was booming and ‘hookup culture’ hadn’t been invented yet”—and finds that things were sorta-kinda different then, but not really.
Meanwhile, The Awl takes a pretty ambivalent look back at Kids, on the fifteenth anniversary of that movie’s release.
The Times reports on an [...]