Mad Men: The Good News (2010)
Season 4, Episode 3
7/10
Hippie Platitudes
7 September 2023
Don's first wife who was never a first wife's hippie niece in Southern California is extremely annoying, and it's hard to believe the fact that America survived those pretentious young Left Wingers, but they did still buy things and turned out more greedy than the previous generation that they couldn't stand...

The further this show goes into the hippie era the... well not the worse it becomes because it's always a great show, one of the best, from beginning to end... however it's far more compelling earlier on because of the early 1960's where Don really fits... but after the whole peace movement took over, we had to hear their dumb childish ideals, and the kind of idealism Don would shrug-off with Midge's jerky beatnik friends he now embraces with the younger generation, who aren't even as smart as those beatniks...

Anyhow, not a bad episode, but the whole Dick Going To California stories are getting old, which, obviously, given what happens, even the writers were aware of: We know Don is Dick and not Don, but who cares... the cat's out of the bag... let it roam free again and enough of "the big secret" already.

But thankfully the episode is saved by Don and Lane's night out, great stuff, two fantastic actors, from America and England, sharing great chemistry... need more moments like this: stretching out the legs and going out amongst 'em.
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