Podcasts by The Mad Men Pre-Game Show
The booze-filled, drug-addled, technicolor roller coaster that is Mad Men will finally end its epic, seven-year run in just eight short weeks. Relive the highs and lows, the affairs and the sudden deaths, the lies and the cold hard truths, in this short-run podcast series. Host Ellen Horne will be talking to writers, historians, psychoanalysts and her fellow show fanatics about what Mad Men means and where it’s headed.
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The Mad Men Finale We Needed, But Didn’t Deserve from 2015-05-22T00:00
by host Ellen Horne
In the wake of the Mad Men finale, there was some debate overListen
Don't Do it, Don! Suicides, Rebirths and the Art of the Finale from 2015-05-14T00:00
Don confronts his life deceptions in Kansas, Pete is wooed by the prospect of a simpler life—maybe including Trudy—and Betty gets a deva...
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The Don Draper of Cats from 2015-05-07T00:00
Don goes on the run, Joan battles egregious sexism at McCann and Roger and Peggy send off the SC+P offices in proper fashion.
Then, Ellen talks with video producer Amy Pearl. She makes vid...
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Dawn vs. Don: Mad Men’s Missed Opportunities from 2015-04-30T00:00
Peggy finally talks about the baby she gave up for adoption, and the team gets back together for one last pitch to save their agency.
It was an episode people have been waiting for a long ...
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Ad Men Talk 'Badvertising' from 2015-04-24T00:00
Don hits on a 17 year old! A grown-up Glen propositions Betty! And Sally sells herself on the idea of a one-way bus ticket.
There's a whole lot of persuading going on. This is...
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Meeting the Real Sally Draper from 2015-04-16T00:00
Megan got her divorce, Don got dumped by the diner waitress and Harry Crane's true pervy nature was revealed. But whither Sally Draper? ...
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Mad Men Goes to Therapy from 2015-04-09T00:00
As we learned on last week's episode, the partners at the agency are now filthy, stinking rich. So why are they all still so unhappy? While we saw some glimmers of hope for Don, Peggy and Ken in...
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Welcome Back to the '60s from 2015-04-03T00:00
At its best, Mad Men brilliantly deconstructs things like family dynamics, corporate influence, and the gigantic cultural shift that took us from Eisenhower's '50s to the louche '70s. It paints ...
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