Matthew Weiner inherited Mad Men’s use of dream sequences from his time working on David Chase’s The Sopranos.

Mad Men is one of those shows people think they fully understand until you pause, look closer, and realize there’s a whole ...

The best kind of pilot stands on its own as a masterpiece and works even better in retrospect as an episode that sets the table for an entire series. No pilot that I’ve seen — and I obviously haven’t ...

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So, John Slattery didn’t actually utter these words to Jon Hamm upon their initial interaction. But Hamm jokes that his co-star was thinking it. This would be in 2006, on the first morning of shooting ...

One of the highlights of the Austin Film Festival for me was attending two sessions involving "Mad Men" creator Matt Weiner. While I didn't get to interview him, he ...

This would be in 2006, on the first morning of shooting the Mad Men pilot episode at Silver-cup Studios in New York City. Hamm, a relative unknown from St. Louis, had landed the lead role of tormented ...

”Do you have a light?” Don Draper asks the waiter in the opening scene of the Mad Men pilot when he’s interrupted from writing ideas on a cocktail napkin. The waiter pulls out his lighter marked with ...