‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner Tells All (…To His Big Sister)

COMMENTS (21)

• Who the f cares Matt…get back to work!

  Comment by Lgfmgmt — Saturday October 29, 2011 @ 11:15pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • He’s back at work right now as he says during the interview.

    Comment by Allison Hope WEiner — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 9:47am PDT  Reply to this post

    • I care. Great interview.

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      Comment by supechopper — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 12:04pm PDT  Reply to this post

• His comments on the Tea Party were off base. There was a huge amount of rhetoric against the bank bailouts from the very start. How is that not anti-corporate? Matt should make more of an effort to break out of his liberal cocoon. The show proves he can do it.

  Comment by sensitive bitch — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 12:38am PDT  Reply to this post

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the best President the USA ever had. He did good things for people like Social Security and the New Deal which built roads and Works Projects Administration which built housing for the poor.

  Comment by Peter — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 1:25am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Thank you for that, Peter, well done. Next up on Show and Tell is Bobby, who’s going to explain how volcanoes work, isn’t that right, Bobby?

    Comment by Ripsnorter — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 4:40am PDT  Reply to this post

• All of you right wingers need to stop buying into Fox News Rupert Murdoch propaganda.

  Comment by James — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 1:27am PDT  Reply to this post

• Enough Weiner already. Get back to making the show instead of talking about making the show.

  Comment by Enough — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 1:58am PDT  Reply to this post

• Oh good. I finally know how to pronounce his name. Weird and sort of awkward being interviewed by his sister. Occasionally interesting factoids (the battle over his recent negotiation getting spinned so he looked like a greedy f-ck) But a lot of boring banter, too. Grade: C

  Comment by Ronnie — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 5:42am PDT  Reply to this post

• I guess when you see a comment that you can’t really respond to you just break out a non sequitur. That’s how crippled your brain is after years of cocooning.

  Comment by what? — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 7:26am PDT  Reply to this post

• No, that would be Breaking Bad. When somebody on Mad Men gets half their face blown off and manages to straighten their tie before collapsing, then we’ll talk. (Granted, the lawnmower cutting off that guys foot was pretty cool.) Mad Men is becoming a kind of soap opera where palpitating, vexed women ponder the unknowable nature of that man they just love so darn much. Why… oh why!… doesn’t he love me the way I love him?

  Comment by Chris — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 11:17am PDT  Reply to this post

  • So someone has to get mutilated for your stunted brain to find it compelling?

    Comment by Jk5000 — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 2:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • Perhaps I just find depictions of adultery more repulsive than you do.

      And depictions of violence clean by comparison.

      I’d rather watch men fight each other with mercury fulminate and pipe bombs than watch a young girl driven insane from intuiting her father’s adulteries. And then watch the parents blame her for acting out.

      I like stories where men take responsibility for their actions.

      Walter White: “I am not in danger, Skyler. I am the danger. A guy opens his door and gets shot, and you think that of me? No! I am the one who knocks.”

      Comment by Chris — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 5:22pm PDT  Reply to this post

      • It was the 60s, dude. There was no such thing as children reacting to their parents problems by crying out for attention, there were just good kids and bad kids. You get that it’s a period piece, right? And Sally isn’t “insane” because of father’s adulteries, she’s angry because she hates her mother, who is horrible to her because Betty hated her own mother.

        Comment by jer — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 9:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Blah blah blah…

  Comment by Whiny Weiner — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 11:36am PDT  Reply to this post

  • Yeah, I also hate it when people interview each other and talk about stuff. All those words.

    Comment by Magilla — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 12:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

    • I bet you subscribe to moveline too.

      Comment by Magilla Gorilla — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 8:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Smug, vain, venal. Good show, great writer, but get over yourself.

  Comment by Miles — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 12:30pm PDT  Reply to this post

• What’s with the commenters who tell Weiner to shut up and get back to work? Like any of you know his schedule or how much spare time he has to give an interview?

  Comment by Magilla — Sunday October 30, 2011 @ 1:02pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Interesting that his mother is blonde… is this why he hates Betty?

  Comment by anna — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 10:10am PDT  Reply to this post

• Fantastic interview, ty for posting it.

  FWIW, I’m only at the end of season 2, I am heartbroken about Don & Betty breaking up, it really gets to me.

  Comment by Missy — Monday October 31, 2011 @ 8:18pm PDT  Reply to this post