Outside of the flashbacks, Mad Men gets a little meta on Emmy weekend by making Don’s winning an advertising award (a Clio) a major plot point.
As usual, it’s Pete who is most eager to prove that the need to consume crosses all social barriers.
The early going of Mad Men’s fourth season has given us a whole lot of Don Draper and his nonstop cycle of disintegration and reinvention.
Mad Men’s sojourns to the West Coast have an otherworldly and surreal feel to them.
In this episode we watch both Don and Roger humiliate themselves, yet for seemingly opposite reasons.
Season four of Mad Men begins by reminding us that the heart of the show will always remain the same.
Of course change comes for literally everyone, as news of Kennedy being shot fills the airwaves and the uncertainty moving forward becomes much more explicit.
By Mad Men standards, this week’s episode gives viewers a couple surprisingly major plot developments.
This is a film that challenges any sense of resentment in identity building, and for that alone, it deserves wide praise.