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Reality Catches Up With Don Draper, and It Is Glorious

A post from DoubleX writer Lauren Bans:

Last night’s bizarro Halloween-themed Mad Men episode showed the nudity we’ve all been waiting for since Betts got a hold of her husband’s Pandora’s box: a glorious disrobing of Don Draper's decades-long, self-perpetuated costume. (SPOILER ALERT!) ... (Read the rest of this article at DoubleX.)

Is This the Season Mad Men Falls Apart?

A guest post from my friend Matt Labash, a writer at The Weekly Standard, about this season of Mad Men:

The show is falling apart dramatically. There are two problems, the way I see it. 1) It's getting all message-y. 2) Not enough Roger Sterling ... (Read more in DoubleX.)

On Don Draper's Pledge to Be a Better Man

As Frank Rich pointed out in the Sunday New York Times, this season of Mad Men has a new tagline—no longer "Where the truth lies," but rather, "The World's Gone Mad." Things seem relatively normal in the early 1963 moment with which the season begins—though by year's end, we know that history alone, not to speak of the tangled lives of Mad Men's ensemble cast, will make a sense of cultural and political vertigo inevitable ... (Read the rest of this post, or the whole conversation, in DoubleX.)