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While Don implodes, Season 6 is equally the story of how the women of Mad Men finally stop asking for permission. Peggy Olson (Elisabeth Moss) leaves the creative shadow of Don to flourish at CGC, only to realize that a glass ceiling is still a glass ceiling. Her relationship with Abe is a disaster of 1960s idealism clashing with professional reality—ending with him literally being stabbed by her neighbor. It’s darkly comic, but it signals that Peggy has chosen the city, the career, and the power over the commune, the peace, and the man.

Season 6’s Don is not the charming philanderer of earlier years. He is cruel, sloppy, and increasingly unhinged. His affair with Sylvia Rosen (a devastatingly good Linda Cardellini), the wife of his downstairs neighbor, is not about sex or love. It is about power and self-destruction. Mad Men - Season 6

At the center of the storm is Don Draper (Jon Hamm). In previous seasons, Don’s philandering and secrecy were depicted with a certain rogueish charm. In Season 6, that charm evaporates, replaced by a chilling nihilism. While Don implodes, Season 6 is equally the