Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner is currently on tour, promoting his first novel, Heather, The Totality. Independent of the book’s merits—dubious as they may be—though, Weiner’s tour is reportedly going pretty poorly at the moment, largely on account of an accusation of sexual harassment that was levied against him last…
Heather, The Totality is ruined by its ending. Weiner makes it clear that Bobby is out to harm Heather, whether through rape, murder, or some kind of deranged fantasy where they run off together. She notices his attention, and is at the right age to find a mysterious bad boy alluring, at least in an abstract sense.…
When people try to describe the depth and scope of AMC’s now-concluded, much-mourned Mad Men, “novelistic” is one of the first words they usually reach for. Like The Wire or The Sopranos—where creator Matthew Weiner sharpened his teeth before making the jump to helming his own series—the show cast a wide net in its…
