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Posts Tagged: Walter White

Himpathy for a Horse

By Sara Fredman

November 7th, 2018

Have we come to bury the antihero, or to praise him?

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Tags: antihero, bojack horseman, Breaking Bad, Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, gender inequality, Netflix, peak TV, Philbert, prestige television, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, Sara Fredman, sexism, television, Walter White

The Saturday Rumpus Essay: On Madness and Mad Men

By Caroline Smith

September 26th, 2015

In my eight years as a Mad Men fan, the series has repeatedly prompted me to reflect on parenting.

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Tags: advertising, alcohol, Alias, Amanda Bynes, Anna Gunn, anxiety, Betty Draper, Betty Freidan, birth, Breaking Bad, Caroline Smith, cutting, death, depression, Don Draper, Donna Bassin, Elisabeth Moss, ER, Gilmore Girls, Girl on the Train, Gone Girl, Harry Crane, January Jones, Joan Harris, Jon Hamm, Katie Roiphe, Ken Cosgrove, Kiernan Shipka, mad men, Madison Avenue, madness, Margaret Honey, matthew weiner, Megan Draper, Mental Health, mental health industry, mental illness, Meryle Mahrer Kaplan, messiness, Mommyblogs, motherhood, mothering, obsession, parenthood, parenting, Paul Kinsey, Peggy Olson, Philip Larkin, postpartum depression, ppd, pregnancy, Representations of Motherhood, Sally Draper, self harm, Sex, Skylar White, students, sylvia plath, teaching, television, the 60's, the new york times, unlikeable characters, Walter White, writing

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