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Characters Least and Most Likely to Appear in the ‘Mad Men’ Series Finale
Trudy has gotten her happy ending, which is not something anyone else on this show can say. She’s going to ride into the sunset on a Learjet to her new rural life in Wichita.
War Stories: ‘Mad Men’ Inches Toward its End (‘The Milk and Honey Route’)
Distracting ourselves from the inevitable is no longer possible. We must accept that none of these characters has more than hour to live.
The King Ordered It: The Beginning of the End of ‘Mad Men’ (‘Time & Life’)
The struggle of Sterling Cooper & Partners is a metaphor for the struggles of all its major characters: How can we feel big and important when we are so, so small and insignificant?
Fortunate Sons and Daughters: ‘Mad Men’ gives us ‘The Forecast’
‘Mad Men’ is and has always been about one thing and one thing only: the unrequited love between Betty Hofstadt-Draper-Francis and the kid who used to live down the block–the kid they call Glen Bishop.
Henry Francis Drinks Your Milkshake, and other observations from this week’s ‘Mad Men’ (‘New Business’)
How many lives has Don Draper ransacked? His very name is a lie; he’s just a Dick squatting in Lieutenant Draper’s abandoned identity.
The Life Not Lived: ‘Mad Men’ Hits the Home Stretch with ‘Severance’
Apart from some ill-advised mustachery, the rakish boys’ club of SC&P is a mirror of its early ‘60s glory days. The prostitutes are plentiful, the Benjamins are disposable, and the casting calls are as boner-encouraging as ever.
