Looks like everyone’s getting a turn. If last week’s episode was all Don and Joan, this episode has Peggy and Pete come into their own. Pete kicks butt and Peggy gets hip. Also, a lot of reminders of pre-feminism days. For those of you who think we’re post-feminist, we’ve come a very long way,...
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How many markers of the 1960s can be squeezed into one Mad Men episode? I count “the pill,” abortion, Vietnam, “grass,” Berkeley student protests and the youth revolution, hitchhiking—and that’s all before the first commercial break. Let’s start from the beginning. Joannie is at the gynecologist, feet in stirrups, finding out if she all’s...
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The episode title is: Christmas comes but once a year. And thank the little Baby Jesus for that. Because Christmas in Mad Menland is grim indeed. If possible, Don Draper is drinking even more than ever. I pity you fools who play the Mad Men drinking game. I’m sure you’re all passed out by...
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Who is Don Draper? That’s the question that opens Mad Men’s Season Four, and the question Don is asked by the Advertising Age journalist who is interviewing him about the SCDP Glo-Coat commercial that is the talk of the town. A man with much to hide, Don is spooked by this delving and clams up,...
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