Critics Rave About Mad Men Premiere; Matthew Weiner Gives Insight on Don Draper's Future

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Critics have been piling on praise for the Mad Men Season 4 premiere, which airs this Sunday night at 10PM | 9C. Read on to hear what they're saying and to find out more details about the big night.

Entertainment Weekly gave the premiere episode an A- and the New York Post awarded it four stars, while Rolling Stone called it one of the best Mad Men episodes yet (no link). The New York Observer and New York Daily News offered glowing reviews; more praise came from the New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Philadelphia Daily News, Detroit News and National Post.

• Series creator Matthew Weiner spoke to NYmag.com, the New York Daily News [no link] and the Associated Press about the new season. "[Don] is single and divorced, he is not a daily father anymore, he is looking for structure of some kind," Weiner tells the AP.

USA Today and Zap2It spoke to Weiner and various cast members about the new season. "Everybody has to account for themselves now," John Slattery said of the entrepreneurial spirit at the new SCDP office.

The Toronto Sun ran a profile of Elisabeth Moss. "On any other show, we already would have seen them have an affair," Moss says of Peggy and Don. "That's what makes this show great. We don't do the typical thing."

• The red carpet premiere took place in Los Angeles on Tuesday. Check out what Christina Hendricks and Elisabeth Moss were wearing.

Take the Esquire quiz to determine how much of a Mad Men fan you are.

The New York Times published an interactive timeline to view the milestones in Mad Men alongside milestones in history. The Times also visited Ossining, the town where Don and Betty used to live together, and profiled Jimmy's La Grange, a restaurant mentioned in the premiere episode.

• Inspired by earlier seasons of Mad Men, The Huffington Post got nostaligic for beards and kitten heels.

• Also in the Huffington Post costume designer Janie Bryant talked about the fashion in Season 4. "Peggy is the character that really shifts the most," she shares.

• To prime you for the Sunday premiere, the Houston Chronicle whipped up a nice survey of fashion and cultural trends in 1964.

• In the spirit of Mad Men fever, VanityFair.com draws attention to an obscure comic strip from the early '60s called Those Madison Avenue Men!

• The New York Post examines Mad Men's female characters through a feminist lens.

• One-time Sterling Cooper switchboard operator, Crista Flanagan poses for the cover of Playboy in a '60s pinup style.

The New York Daily News names Jon Hamm one of Hollywood's hottest hunks.

Jon Hamm will play the voice of an FBI supervisor in a December episode of The Simpsons, and executive producer Al Jean was apparently impressed with Hamm's comedy prowess. "You gave him one note and he immediately did 12 great things with it," Jean told Entertainment Weekly.



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