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Mad Men – Recap: Don-ward Spiral via Rickey.org Recap video and review of Mad Men – Season 6 Episode 8 – The Crash: “The Crash” has to rank as one of the strangest episodes in the history of Mad Men, if for no other reason than I can’t seem to pinpoint exactly what it was trying to say. There’s a certain desperation at the heart of the narrative this week, as Don (Jon Hamm) tries to win back Sylvia (Linda Cardellini) and, in the process, ends up getting strung out on drugs with the rest of his staff, culminating in a three day weekend in which nothing really gets accomplished. The episode rivals Roger’s (John Slattery) similar drug-fueled haze in “Far Away Places,” yet I’d argue that the story here is far more jarring in how it dislodges figures both high and low. It’s not just bigwigs like Don getting “energy serum” injections, it’s the men in the middle like Stan (Jay R. Ferguson) and Ken (Aaron Staton), and even some of the newbies from CGC who are a bit lower on the hierarchy. What results is office-wide chaos, and what is likely to be the most divisive episode of the season: you’re either going to love this for its wackiness and subtextual narrative, or you’re going to loathe it for that wackiness and for how it offers subtext in lieu of an actual story. I’m leaning a bit closer towards loving it, if only because it’s rare for us to get an episode that’s as completely off-the-rails as this (I’m not sure Aaron Staton is going to get another opportunity to tap dance while monologuing, for instance). The subtext-heavy narrative is also in service of illustrating the lasting implications of Don’s breakup with Sylvia, and how procuring a car account can both legitimize a firm and turn it into a “whorehouse,” in a manner of speaking. There’s also likely to be considerable fallout as a result of how everyone acted in their altered states, and that should be an interesting route for the narrative to explore, going forward. Credit: AMC So Frank Gleason is dead. Granted, he hasn’t been someone with whom we’ve been all that close (or even all that familiar, beyond the last two or three episodes), yet his death hits the CGC side of the firm pretty hard, particularly Ted (Kevin Rahm), who takes the weekend off following Frank’s funeral. This couldn’t have happened at a worse time, since the Chevy account has thrown the firm into disarray. Ken is being subjected to all manner of unpleasantries as a result of his job as the point man for the account: he has to chaffeur the Chevy execs around town for drinks, after which they fire guns out of his car while forcing him to accelerate, before covering his eyes so he can’t even see where he’s driving. This results in an accident that injures Ken’s leg and causes him to limp into office the next day, where he announces that Chevy hates everything the firm has come up with, and is giving them the weekend to come up with something new. And so Jim Cutler calls in a physician to give out injections of his special “energy serum” (probably speed) to the employees to help usher them through the grueling 72 hour period. Don, Ken, Stan and several others take injections, and just like that, we’re off to the races… Credit: AMC/Yahoo! TV Don loses it when Sylvia calls to give him the third degree over stalking her. Apparently, he’s been staking out her apartment, and her husband has discovered Don’s pile of cigarette butts. Apparently, Arnold thinks Sylvia has taken up smoking again, and she fears it’s only a matter of time before he discovers the truth. In essence, Sylvia is terrified that Don is going to ruin the good thing she has going with Arnold, saying that if he keeps this up, he’s going to learn about the affair and then murder her. While she was merely being

HitFix's Alan Sepinwall reviews "The Crash," the May 19 episode of AMC's "Mad Men," in which Don and Stan get a special shot, the agency loses a leader and Sally meets her 'Grandma Ida'.http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching

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Game of Thrones – Review: I Now Pronounce You Drunk and Sansa via Rickey.org Review of Game of Thrones – Season 3 Episode 8 – Second Sons: Game of Thrones is picking up the pace by adopting a more fleet approach to its storylines. In past weeks, we’ve gotten single check-ins with various storylines across Westeros, Beyond the Wall, and Across the Narrow Sea. Yet “Second Sons” gets a bit more in-depth, as we stop in for multiple scenes with Daenerys (Emilia Clarke), Sansa (Sophie Turner), Tyrion (Peter Dinklage), and even Melisandre (Carice Van Houten). Meanwhile, a significant chunk of this season’s narrative sits this one out (No Jon, Robb, Jaime, Brienne, Littlefinger, Varys, Theon or Bran this week). However, the narrative is improved by the omission, simply by virtue of the fact that the stories in question are allowed room to breathe. For instance, we really haven’t gotten much from Stannis (Stephen Dillane) this season, outside of a brief handful of scenes here and there in which we see how desperately he clings to Melisandre, despite the presence of a wife (Selyse) and daughter (Shireen) who carry a healthy respect and admiration for him (Selyse more than Shireen, it would seem). Here, we get to see the toll his defeat last season has taken, as he embraces Melisandre’s Lord of Light more fervently, resorting to magic to turn the tide of the war, even if the price of that magic is the blood of his own innocent kin. It’s powerful stuff, and is merely one facet of a larger narrative about the cost of power in war. By any measure, “Second Sons” is well-paced television that takes a broad story and boils it down to compelling specifics. Credit: HBO The North: After having been captured last week by The Hound (Rory McCann) while fleeing from the Brotherhood Without Banners, Arya (Maisie Williams) has naturally assumed that he’s taking her back to King’s Landing. To avoid this fate, she attempts to murder The Hound in his sleep with a rock the size of her own head. However, he awakes just before the potentially fatal blow. He invites her to take her best shot, but warns her that she’d better succeed in killing him, or he’ll cut off both her hands the moment he’s recovered. Arya opts not to take the risk, a choice that proves to be wise on her part, in the sense that The Hound actually wants to take her where she wants to go. He reveals to Arya that they’re headed for The Twins, stronghold of House Frey, where Robb (Richard Madden) and the rest of her family are gathered for the wedding of her uncle Edmure (Tobias Menzies) to one of the Frey girls. The Hound rationalizes that the Starks will pay a veritable king’s ransom for Arya, which is worth far more to him than the indignity of attempting to win back his old position under King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson). Arya is ambivalent about The Hound, recognizing that he’s a means to an end, but hating him nonetheless (though The Hound recalls having rescues Sansa from rape in King’s Landing last season, as a means of explaining that there are people far worse than himself in this world. Yet Arya remains disbelieving). And so the Travelogue of Thrones continues. Credit: HBO Meanwhile, Melisandre has brought Gendry (Joe Dempsie) back to Dragonstone to sacrifice him to the Lord of Light, so that Stannis might finally be rid of the usurpers to his rightful place on the throne. To this end, Melisandre decides to wine and dine Gendry, to let him get a taste of the kingly life. Her rationale is that fear “poisons the meat,” so to speak, and so she wants Gendry to feel comfortable, so that he doesn’t “see the knife coming.” Of course, Melisandre takes it a step further by actually seducing the guy, giving him a little thrill before tying him to the bedpost and subjecting him to leeches. The entire scene is among the best of the episode, for

I’m sorry, Ted, but every time we get a car, this place turns into a whorehouse. Before we leap into a discussion of What It All Means, let’s pause to marvel at the weird. Mad Men Episode 6.08 was some seriously weird shit. We’ve heard Matt Weiner say that Mad Men doesn’t have a genre, [...]

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“We do not choose our destiny, but we must do our duty, no? Great or small, we must do our duty,” says Stannis and indeed everyone has a lot of unpleasant duties to uphold on this week’s episode of Game of Thrones titled, “Second Sons.” Some reluctantly carry through their duties and some just abdicate. [...]Game of Thrones 3.08 "Second Sons" Review: Duty Bound