Mad Men, Season 5

All of this feeds back into a larger question I?ve been mulling lately. Like many viewers, I assumed at the outset that Mad Men was a tragedy about the fall of Don Draper. He was a man living a life propped up by unsustainable lies, and the series would chart his fall, a fall that seemed that much more inevitable as you watched that dark-suited silhouette take its plunge each week during the opening credits. But recently I?ve been wondering if we make too much of that weekly fall. Don?s biggest secret is out?his wife knows it, his colleagues know it, and now even his young daughter knows it. I suppose it?s still possible that the Army will catch up with him and put him away for going AWOL. But that seems increasingly unlikely. These days, Mad Men feels less like a series about the tragic fall of Don Draper and more like one about his moral progress. As Matt Zoller Seitz points out in his recap, Don?s conversation with Sally about Anna Draper might have been his best parenting moment yet: honest, yet respectful of her still tender age. I was also impressed that he was able to see that Megan was right about how to handle Betty?s meddling?and able to admit his own initial response was wrong.

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