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MAD MEN Season 7 Episode 13
Can Don Go Home And Be A Dad?
Don Draper’s (Jon Hamm) at a crossroad in Mad Men Season 7 Episode 13. He seems to be on the run again, but it’s not that simple. He’s searching for something. Trying to put together the pieces of Dick, the boy he left behind – pieces that include his mistakes. Yet, while he’s roaming the Milk…
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MAD MEN & Don Draper
Don’s Stories
Creating Greener Pastures?
Mad Men Season 7 Episode 12 gives us more to chew on about Don Draper’s (Jon Hamm) greatest talent: creating stories that sell. Sometimes his imagination carries him away, for better or worse. Where did this talent come from? No doubt, Don’s imagination saved him from an abusive and damaging childhood. Imagining being somewhere else…
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MAD MEN Season 7 Episode 11
Will More Losses
Mean A Setback for Don?
Right when it seems life is moving along for Don in a more optimistic way, Mad Men Season 7 Episode 11 Time and Life comes along. McCann-Erickson plays a manipulative trick, absorbing Sterling Cooper & Partners. The agency’s identity is now gone. Does it take away Don’s as well? Don says to Roger: “What’s in…
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MAD MEN Season 7 Episode 10
4 Clues Why Don Draper
Just Might Make It
Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is finally beginning to face how much his past lives inside him in Mad Men Season 7 Episode 10. Plus, all the mistakes he’s made and the ways he’s sabotaged love because of it. At least it sure seems that way. When he says to Johnny Mathis in episode 10, Forecast: “Take responsibility…
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MAD MEN Season 7 Episode 8
Two Sides Of Don Draper
Which One Will Win In The End?
Don Draper’s (Jon Hamm) on the chase again in Season 7, Episode 8, but this time he seems different. So is Diana (Elizabeth Reaser). Don’s more sensitive than he’s been with any woman in the past. But, Diana: she’s like the old Don running from his past, the one we’ve known for 7 Seasons. Then…
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MAD MEN Season 7 Episode 8
Don Draper’s Dream &
The Mother He Lost
Mad Men Season 7, Episode 8, Severance, shows us just how much Don Draper needs therapy. Psychoanalysis would be even better, with his traumatic history, one he’s unconsciously living out. Don’s needed therapy for a long time. But, now, with Meagan gone, this loss repeats earlier losses. And, with Don finally opening up about the…
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