"Mad Men" The Doorway, Part 2 (TV Episode 2013) Poster

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(2013)

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Mad Men- New Season with Surprises ***
edwagreen8 April 2013
Warning: Spoilers
Don's partner lost his mother in this episode. His non-show of any emotion here was absolutely amazing. Just stating that after all she was 91, was pretty heartless coming from a surviving son. Was there a love-hate relationship between the two? Obviously, Don's behavior during what was to be the eulogy part was ridiculous at best.

The trip to Hawaii was interesting, but gave little meaning to the episode.

John Hamm has the role of Don Draper down to a scientific being. For that, no one can criticize him. He is up to his old ways.

He is so good as he is able to read what the public wants in a product. He is able to get into the product itself for meaning.

Is he seeing his own demise coming? The part with the doorman collapsing and what he viewed while reading a book makes one think of this.

How interesting that he has befriended a heart doctor who of course warns him to stop smoking. What is this coming to?
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6/10
Does it matter anymore?
infodaddy8 April 2013
Season One was art. Then it declined, more each subsequent season.

Scenes that were meaningless. Followed by a too-soon and relentless spate of commercials. People who were meaningless. Followed by a too-soon and relentless spate of commercials. Actions that were meaningless. Followed by a too-soon and relentless spate of commercials. And no mention of the "creative revolution." Followed by a too-soon and relentless spate of commercials.

Don't know. To me it has become just a collection of scenes, blackout sketches I think they were once called.

The John Slattery character crying over the just-died bootblack's tools of the trade: that worked. It was perhaps the only honest moment in the two hours.
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4/10
Just Not Right
TheFearmakers20 August 2021
Something is off about these two first episodes/this two-part episode. Hell, even Roger is awkward and pointless.
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