Last week on Mad Men, Don Draper came home to an empty apartment, and that evocative final image of him standing amidst the desolate white floor stands as both a metaphor for Don’s whole existence and a lead-in to the…
Mad Men: 6×05 “The Flood” Recap
Pressure keeps building, more and more, until eventually it forces its way out, resulting in an outpour and uncontrollable flood. What am I talking about? The assassination of Martin Luther King was the last pressure needed to open the flood…
Mad Men: 6×04 “To Have And To Hold” Recap
Race has always been an issue mostly in the background or only a secondary development in the show, but that looks like it’s changing with the introduction of personal story line for Dawn, Don’s secretary. We see how people take…
Mad Men 6×03 “The Collaborators” Recap
“Collaborators” must be a euphemism for sleeping with married women because that is what Pete and Don seems to be doing this entire episode. Don has always had a penchant for sleeping with married women without getting caught, but Pete…
Mad Men: 6×01-02 “The Doorway” Recap
“Midway in our life’s journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.” Don starts this season by reading Dante’s Inferno, which will more than likely set the mood for the…