Over at MSN TV today: I review the feature-length season 6 premiere of AMC's MAD MEN, which made its UK debut on Sky Atlantic last night. This an incredibly difficult show to review with an imposed word-limit, but I hope you enjoy it.
"The Doorway", Mad Men's sixth season opener, continued last year's key theme with Don increasingly aware of his mortality and inability to mend his ways. A Hawaiian vacation with beautiful wife Megan (Jessica Paré), as part of research for a Sheraton Hotels campaign, only served to remind him that she's a bad match; too young and too happy-go-lucky. And then there was the chance meeting with a soldier who'd willingly trade places with him - an unsettling echo of his own identity-switch from Dick Whitman to Don Draper (he even accidentally took the man's lighter; a device responsible for killing the real Don Draper in Korea many years ago).
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