We haven’t been given too much sexy banter between funny, attractive grown-ups, like the lovely sequence between the just-divorce-papered Joan and the domestically unhappy Don at the bar. Except for bits of comedy (mostly involving Roger), this season has had a pervasive sense of unease. I don’t say this to take anything away from the rest of season five to date - for their creative ambition, I’d put episodes one through six up against any run of any series in TV history - but to acknowledge what some other fans have been saying. Written by Victor Levin and Matthew Weiner and directed by Michael Uppendahl, it moved and felt more like an early episode, snappy and sexy. When Don Draper pulled the brim of his hat down over his eyes and said a dashing farewell to Joan in “ Christmas Waltz,” I felt something I hadn’t yet felt during this otherwise excellent season of Mad Men: elation.
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