SPOILER FROM HERE ON OUT.
Ive been trying to have this discussion for WEEKS now. Let's do this
1.Season 5 might be the best season of Mad Men; it's either this or Season 3. The reason those 2 rank so high is because they involve change. Mad Men has such good characters and concepts that it begins to stagnate inside its own greatness. Season 3 brought a new setting and a change of roles(Don on top, Roger and Co. forced to appease to his ways) and Season 5 brought us Lane's Death, Don being married, Peggy leaving, and most importantly, Don Draper accepting Dick Whitman.
2. Megan Draper was probably this Season's MVP. We have spent 4 seasons with Don Draper being King ****, wiping his ass on everyone and everything and rarely having to apologize for it. The opening episodes of Season 5 were a shock to the collective systems of Don Draper Worshipers everywhere. The moment she sang Zou Bisou Bisou we knew something was up. Women had seduced Don Draper before but ALWAYS on his terms, ALWAYS in his privacy. People weren't allowed in his home, and co-workers, pssh, Don's happiness was never apart of their schedule. But Megan ended all that. When she got naked and cleaned the floor is when every man in America went "I get it. I understand." There was one girl in the universe who could do that to Don Draper and Megan was it.
3. Best episode was Codfish Ball. Period. That thing is going into the Mad Men All Time List right behind The Suitcase. Those last 15 minutes from Sally's Go Go Boots to Roger getting Dome are the best thing I've seen on TV this year.
4.Megan's Dad had the quote of the season. "Little girls they spread their legs and fly away".
5.Roger doing LSD the best.
6.No Betty Draper is what made this season so special for me. I have never loathed a character like I loathe Betty Draper. She is everything I despise and not in the "Joffrey Baratheon Holy Crap He's Such a Good Villian I Hate Him Way", but in a "I laughed when she got fat and hopes she hangs herself kinda way". That scene where she uses Sally to compensate for her jealousy at the fact that Megan got EVERYTHING she always wanted made me sick. And in that final scene where Sally runs home to her, she's not happy that her daughter needs her, she's happy that her daughter needs her more than Megan. And that Thanksgiving Scene. Just thinking about her makes me angry.
7.And lastly, that scene where Peggy's leaving, and Don goes from sympathetic, to cocky salesmen, to painstakingly regretful was just pure magic. That kiss on her hand said more than he ever could and the longer he held on the more tragic it became. Their relationship has always and will always be the best thing on this show because of how unique it is for OUR TIME PERIOD. In the 60s it was unfathomable.
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Realo won gold at the Sex Olympics with a BROKEN FRIGGIN NECK.-Voltch