Mad Men Season 5 is not comfort viewing. It is a punch to the gut. It asks the question we all dread: What happens when you get everything you wanted?
The answer, apparently, is that you hang yourself in your office. Your secretary quits. Your wife becomes a stranger. And you sit alone in the dark, listening to a song about a world that has left you behind. Mad Men - Season 5
Season 5 asks: What happens after the fairy tale ends? Mad Men Season 5 is not comfort viewing
Welcome to 1966. The pills are brighter, the skirts are shorter, and the existential dread has never been deeper. The answer, apparently, is that you hang yourself
Best Episode: "The Other Woman" / "Commissions and Fees" (impossible to choose) Worst Episode: There aren't any. But "Tea Leaves" is the slowest burn.
We watch Megan fade away. We watch Peggy fly away. We watch Lane die. And we watch Don Draper, sitting in a dark bar, listening to a stranger’s problems, because he cannot face his own. The season ends with Don hearing the Rolling Stones’ "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" for the first time. He smirks. The song is a primal scream against consumerism, conformity, and the emptiness of modern life. It is the anthem of the revolution that Don Draper—ad man, liar, phantom—will never be able to join.