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"I happen to think it&amp;#x27;s both, so let me go ahead and let you in on the debate raging inside my brain. God, this is the worst season of Mad Men ever. What have we even been doing all this time? OK: There was a merger. That seemed like it was gonna be energizing, like that time they moved to the new office in season four and everybody was moving and shaking and rocking mod fashion. But this new chapter in firm history mostly consists of Ted vacillating between creepy smiles and flushed tantrums as Don looks around, seemingly searching for a playpen to keep Ted in. Harry Hamlin&amp;#x27;s character, though he looks like he would smell fantastic, mostly just sits in the conference room looking perturbed (I imagine he&amp;#x27;s there even overnight, in the dark, perfectly still). Roger, meanwhile, is juggling. That&amp;#x27;s where we&amp;#x27;re at with Roger. And we&amp;#x27;ve not had one non-Don interesting romantic story line to follow throughout the season. Not one! It&amp;#x27;s been nothing but teases: a cute Ginsberg date here, a thrilling Stan and Peggy kiss there...but absolutely nothing momentous. And, I&amp;#x27;m sorry, are we supposed to be all whoa at this Bob Benson reveal? [SPOILER] He&amp;#x27;s gay, and he&amp;#x27;s in love with miserable Pete Campbell? The first part&amp;#x27;s just low-impact, and the second part&amp;#x27;s ri-diculous. Benson&amp;#x27;s sinister sunshine has been built up to such an extent that I was fully expecting a mind-blowing payoff&amp;amp;#8212;something of stock-market-rocking proportions. If this is the major revelation&amp;amp;#8212;he&amp;#x27;s gay&amp;amp;#8212;I&amp;#x27;m majorly disappointed. And it doesn&amp;#x27;t bode well for all the other symbolism we&amp;#x27;ve been hammered by all season. Stairs! Doors! Falling! If everything pans out with Benson-level tepidity, we&amp;#x27;ll probably see Don Draper (gasp!) leave advertising to start a carpentry business. Wait, no, this is the best season of Mad Men ever. Sure, it might be mysterious and murky, but there are jaw-dropping moments even within all the secrecy. How chilling was the moment last night when Peggy thought Pete&amp;#x27;s mother knew about the baby? How perfectly inevitable was it, Sally catching Don in the act&amp;amp;#8212;and catching him with a woman who&amp;#x27;s no doubt become peak-attractive to him as he learns what a devoted mother she is? (That&amp;#x27;s my theory, anyway&amp;amp;#8212;Dick Whitman&amp;#x27;s abandonment issues rearing their trifling heads). And speaking of the past, season six will surely go down as the finest in history reflection the show has ever had. I mean, period-perfect telephones are great and whatnot, but Mad Men has stepped it up to an unbelievable degree when it comes to documenting American turmoil from an emotional standpoint. Sure, you may occasionally fidget through the social-studies stuff while wondering what the heck Joan is up to. But if you&amp;#x27;re one of the many fans who originally got into the show by binge-watching, try to take yourself back to that place for a moment. If you were watching these on Netflix right now, you&amp;#x27;d be tearing through them, loving the late-&amp;#x27;60s roller-coaster ride (especially the way it&amp;#x27;s set off by Betty and Henry&amp;#x27;s &amp;#x27;50s-snow-globe existence up in Westchester) and gleefully fearing the big-bang, end-of-season moment you can feel gathering like a storm. I do believe, as we&amp;#x27;re entering the home stretch, that the show has a finale bombshell in store for us that&amp;#x27;ll make the gradual pace of season six worth it. And what&amp;#x27;s even more exciting is that I have no idea what it is. OK, I&amp;#x27;ve made my case(s). Where do you stand? This season of Mad Men--love it or hate it? Photo: AMC"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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