Was Mad Men's Tragedy Not As Shocking As It Could Have Been?

Was Mad Men's Tragedy Not As Shocking As It Could Have Been? Seattle Post-Intelligencer Copyright 2012 Seattle Post-Intelligencer. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Published 11:04 a.m., Monday, June 4, 2012 [...] Lane's fate was sealed the moment he forged that check - and perhaps hinted at even earlier. Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) noted that Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce's life insurance policy will still pay out, even in the event of suicide. [...] there was all the talk about Pete's gun during his dinner party, the same episode that ended with a broken Pete crying to Don in the elevator, "I have nothing." Get scoop on the summer's must-see new shows Borrowing some of Breaking Bad's dark humor, the show first had Lane fail to suffocate himself in the new Jaguar his clueless wife bought him. Special points should also go to Mad Men's makeup team for the unsettling gray pallor of Lane's skin when we at last see his body, particularly since we expected that horror to remain off-screen. Mad Men as horror movie: A few (not so) good men The foreshadowing of Lane's death felt, like many of this season's thematic episodes, a bit heavy-handed. The episode still struck a deeply emotional chord, but we wonder how much more effective it might have been without all the warning signs.

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