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It’s ladies night on Mad Men as both Joan (Christina Hendricks) and Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) make huge career moves. But is this a case of women doing it for themselves, or are they trying to prove something to the men?
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It’s Christmas time on Mad Men as the gingers take centre stage in this week’s offering. We get the return of Lane Pryce (Jared Harris), some significant Joan (Christina Hendricks) screen time, and the return of a familiar face in a very bizarre plotline.
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This week Mad Men delivers one of its more mediocre episodes of the season. Is the return of Betty (January Jones) to blame?
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It was a much quieter episode this week on Mad Men, with what many are touting as the “beginning of the end” of Mr and Mrs. Draper.
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It’s been noted that this season of Mad Men has been more explicit compared to its early, subtler seasons. This week it looks like we return to the old format, with the exception of one eye-opening scene.
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Mad Men switches up its storytelling techniques this week, showing us three concurrent stories of Peggy (Elisabeth Moss), Roger (John Slattery) and Don (Jon Hamm). Likely to be polarizing to many viewers, I didn’t find the narrative deviation distracting as the episode was still ripe with symbolism and character development.
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