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The most important words in Sunday's episode weren't "The president is dead" but "I don't love you."
Any of the three main threads in this week's "Mad Men" would have made a good episode. Put them all together and you have a great one.
Right around the time "Mad Men" was winning its second Emmy for best drama, it was wrapping up what should be an Emmy submission for next year.
A brilliant season of Mad Men came to a close Sunday with an expertly crafted episode, with the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis paralleling (and in some cases prompting) upheavals in the characters' lives.
OK, hands up everyone who figured that Don Draper's cryptic "It's Dick Whitman" phone call at the end of last week's Mad Men would lead to the most open, human side of him we've ever seen.
Lots of interesting stuff in this week's Mad Men, from Kurt revealing he's gay to Duck's booze-fueled corporate intrigue to the lives of the (possibly) rich and (definitely) dissolute in Palm Springs. But we have to start with the phone call.
Sunday's Mad Men didn't look or feel like most episodes of the show, with Don Draper relegated to a supporting role and only a few scenes taking place inside the Sterling Cooper offices.
Sunday's Mad Men opened everyone from secretaries to the elevator operator to Roger Sterling reacting to the death of Marilyn Monroe, but the real tragedy for the folks at Sterling Cooper (some of them, anyway) played out later in the episode.
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