Mad Men - Season 6 Info

While Don sinks, other characters are forced into new, often uncomfortable, roles:

When Mad Men premiered in 2007, it was immediately hailed as a seductive period piece—a glossy trip through the boardrooms and bedrooms of 1960s Madison Avenue. By the time we reached the Season 6 premiere, The Doorway , the glow had worn off. The cigarettes were stale. The whiskey was a crutch. And Don Draper, the once-invincible ad man, had officially become a ghost haunting his own life. Mad Men - Season 6

Don’s trajectory throughout the season is one of literal and figurative "falling"—a theme highlighted by the show’s iconic opening sequence and the season's promotional art, which featured two "Dons" passing each other on a sidewalk. His professional unraveling reaches a breaking point during a pitch to Hershey's, where he abandons his carefully constructed sales persona to reveal the painful truth of his childhood in a brothel. A Backdrop of National Turmoil While Don sinks, other characters are forced into

Don’s behavior reaches new lows: he cheats on Megan with their neighbor Sylvia, lies to Sally, and drinks heavily. The whiskey was a crutch

Mad Men - Season 6 is currently streaming on AMC+ and available on Blu-ray/DVD.

Season 6 does something no previous season dared: it collapses the carefully constructed wall between Don and Dick. For five years, Don Draper was a functional lie—a suit of armor that allowed a frightened boy from a whorehouse to conquer Madison Avenue. But the armor has cracked. The season is punctuated by hallucinatory flashbacks to a Pennsylvania whorehouse where a young Dick Whitman watches a prostitute named Dottie be sexually humiliated. The trauma is no longer subtext; it’s text.