Josh Reviews The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson’s latest film, The French Dispatch, is a salute to a very specific (and mostly vanished) type of journalism: the heyday of The New Yorker magazine and its writers. The film itself is an anthology of several vignettes, beautifully structured to resemble the differe
“Bravo.” Josh Bids Farewell to Mad Men!
Mad Men season one was, I am pretty sure, the first TV show set I ever owned on blu-ray. It was a gift, given to me soon after I bought my first blu-ray player. At the time, I’d heard about but had never seen this new cable show, and also I wasn’t sure if I […]
Josh Reviews Mad Men Season 7.1
It’s a very rare thing when a TV series is able to end at a time and place of its creators’ choosing. There are many things that are problematic with today’s TV landscape, but I must say the recent trend of more TV series having this sort of opportunity is extremel
“Not Great, Bob!” Josh Reviews Mad Men Season 6
Yes, I know the sixth season of Mad Men wrapped up a few months ago already, but it’s taken me a little while to catch up with this, the penultimate season of the show. What a fantastic season of television. I have written before that I enjoyed Mad Men from the beginning, and
Josh Reviews Season Five of Mad Men
Mad Men took a little while to grow on me. Right from the beginning I recognized it as an extremely intelligent, well-made show. But while I respected the audacity of crafting a show around a group of pretty much entirely unlikable, despicable characters, I found that kept me at a
Josh Reviews Season One of Mad Men!
I was excited, last month, to finally sample one of the best-reviewed new shows of the past several years: Mad Men. No surprise, Steph and I made pretty short work of the 13-episode first season on DVD. Mad Men depicts the lives of the men and women who work at Sterling Cooper, a Ma