'Mad Men': How to Gear Up for Season Five
While you're waiting, here's another perspective on the Madison Avenue milieu
The long-awaited fifth season of Mad Men will finally kick off with a two-hour episode on March 25, and man, does it look heavy. Those posters! The falling man! Doomy Don Draper peering into that shop window at the faceless mannequins evoking the Hollow Emptiness of Pre-Counterculture American Life! The show is only just making its way out of the early ’60s, but a pretty bad trip seems in the offing. Which is, of course, historically inevitable. As series creator Matthew Weiner let drop in a recent interview, “the word ‘Vietnam’ will be mentioned.”