I'd throw out House of Cards from that list and add Hannibal and you'll have yourself a deal.

See, I think the ambiguity is not in whether or not Don made the ad, it's whether or not this epiphany was the real deal, or if it was another false positive like at the end of season 2 or when he married Megan. Did he accept himself as Don Draper and leave his painful past behind, or is he doomed to suffer in his…

If Mad Men isn't your cup of tea, that's fine. I don't know what you see about it that isn't "refreshing" or "new". There hasn't been a television show before that really tried to be as strictly literary in a sense as Mad Men was. Even a legendary show like the Sopranos forfeited some of its enjoyment to the easy,…

A bit of warning: this is based on a pretty well-known rumor, and I have no citation for the actual source.

That was the point of Bert's song and dance at the end of the last season. Don didn't understand that his Hershey speech debacle was actually the right choice; he thought his life was a mess because he was unemployed. So he rolled up his sleeves and got back into the business game, only to realize at the end, once…

You are acting like the character's memories aren't forcefully wiped between seasons.