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This episode seems to indicate that Don Draper seems to be in a real decline. Here, he does not attend to the matters at hand because he is involved in a master/slave relationship with his latest squeeze, played by Linda Cardellini. Things do not go well with the relationship.

And they don't go smoothly with the merger, either. We'll see how it goes between Don and Ted Chaough. Looks like there may be a power struggle down the road. And at the end of the episode, it is clear that Don's marriage to Megan is fading away.

Pete Campbell's upheavals continue, as he deals with a mother who suffers from dementia. One of her rare lucid moments comes at the end, when she tells a half-asleep Pete that Kennedy has been shot. He somehow thinks she is referring to JFK, but it turns out that it is Bobby. The episode ends with Bobby being alive.

For a series that has had its share of flat spots in the last two years, this is the third episode in a row that has packed a punch. And it is clear that there will be more fireworks ahead!

Companies have merged, Ted is now sitting on the same board as Don and this seems to be polarising Don's character, perhaps Ted's too. Ted is strong, Don is damaged, Ted is 'nice', Don becomes dominant (almost cruel), Ted has humour while Don does not. The other characters are wallpaper in this episode, with Pete Campbell twisting in his own mire, and a romance in embryo for Joan and Bob Benson.

The affair between Don and Sylvia drew to a close in this episode, with Don first pushing Sylvia in to the role of sexual slave, before she eventually decides she has had enough and regains control. Don's character moves from masterful, to voyeur, to little-boy-lost; he continues to be a weak, living-in-the-moment, psychopath. It never ceases to amaze me how we all watch and think 'yes, that was how it was/is', when the characters in power are so damaged. The sooner we put robots in charge the better.

This episode perfectly shows that even when a merger occurs in the company, there are always ways to force people out as we see here.

Don Draper really shows a disgusting side to himself in this one. We know that Don is capable of bed-hopping at any time. For him to suggest to Sylvia that she exists for his pleasure was sexism at his worst. Where was the latter's husband during all this time?

One of the best parts was to showcase opening day at the new company with the movers and employees in an absolute tizzy to get things in working order.

As the episode concludes, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is shot in Los Angeles moments after winning the California primary there in June of 1968.

Mad Men

Mad Men; one of the most acclaimed series by critics, loved by the fans and buzzed at the award shows, is a character driven series created by Matthew Weiner depicting the inner world of an ad agencies set in '60s in New York. The writing is sharp, elaborative, adaptive and exquisite that keeps the audience tangled in its not-so-likable and faulty world on the edge of their seat.

It is rich on technical aspects like projecting the chemistry among the characters, stunning cinematography, beautiful camera work, references mentioned in the conversations and the classic tone of the series that makes it supremely watchable.

The primary reason why the series stands alone is not only its nature to work in a metaphorical way but to weave out a poem from the sequence, is the genuine soul behind it that attains a certain closure in each episode. The performance objective is score majestically by the cast especially by the protagonist Jon Hamm who is supported convincingly by the cast like Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser, January Jones and John Slattery.

The practical conversations, the whistle-blowing dialogues, three-dimensional characters, excellent execution, finely detailed set-pieces, alluring costume design are the high points of the series that helps it enter the major league.

Season 06

The sixth act is somewhat of a pre-climatic setup as it not only teases the audience for the upcoming journey but also builds up the characters and the plot accordingly to attain a steady narrative closure for the makers.

Man With A Plane

Slattery's directorial episode in a season often ups the ante of the game especially its character driven tone and in here he puts Hamm in an excellent position and utilizes it wisely offering him a range he hadn't yet encountered.