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Anxiety awaits in sixth season of 'Mad Men'

In the first episode of the first season of "Mad Men," Don Draper's next-in-line affair, Rachel Menken, hears his brutal philosophy: Love is nothing more than an ad man's myth, and everyone is born alone and dies alone....

 

Use of Beatles song cost 'Mad Men' $250,000

Creator Matthew Weiner paid a hefty licensing fee to use the "Tomorrow Never Knows" in last Sunday's episode of the hit show.

 

The TV Column: ‘Mad Men’ season five premiere draws 3.5 million viewers

Mad Men Season 5

After 18 months of waiting, an average of 3.5 million people tuned in Sunday to watch “Mad Men’s” fifth-season debut. That’s a series best for the show — and about 600,000 more people than watched the fourth-season debut in July 2010. “Mad Men” had been off the air since October 2010, following the fourth-season finale, as the studio, the network and the creator wrangled over this and that — product placement within the show, adding another ad break, creator’s salary, blah, blah, blah.

 

The ‘Mad Men’ season premiere: We need to talk about Joan

This post-episode mini-analysis of “Mad Men” could have focused on the already dysfunctional marriage between Don and Megan Draper, a relationship that — as Sunday’s season five premiere, “A Little Kiss,” demonstrated — apparently involves Don’s usual callousness, upward career mobility for Megan and your standard make-up sex prompted by half-naked house cleaning.

 

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