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  • Season 03
  • Episode 13
  • Shut the Door. Have a Seat

Mad Men Season Finale: After the Fall

We can no longer deny that we're watching one of the most bold and unpredictable shows to ever air on television.

  • S.03
  • Ep.12
  • 'The Grown Ups'

Mad Men: We Didn’t Start the Fire

This week, the second-to-last episode of the season sets up the finale with a bang. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.11
  • 'The Gypsy and the Hobo'

Mad Men: The Masked Ball

Don's brand comes under scrutiny. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.10
  • 'The Color Blue'

Mad Men: The Downward Spiral

This bleak episode seems to set the stage for even more tragedy.  

  • S.03
  • Ep.09
  • 'Wee Small Hours'

Mad Men: The Pursuit of Happiness

All kinds of heartbreak for Don, Betty, and especially Sal.  

  • S.03
  • Ep.08
  • 'Souvenir'

Mad Men: You Can’t Go Rome Again

When in Rome on a Roman holiday, Don and Betty live la dolce vita, burning Roman candles from both ends.  

  • S.03
  • Ep.07
  • 'Seven Twenty Three'

Mad Men: The Lost Symbols

Peggy, Don, and Betty step into a three-ring circus of heavy symbolism. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.06
  • 'Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency'

Mad Men: Greener Pastures

Party foul! One bold stroke rejiggers the entire season. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.05
  • 'The Fog'

Mad Men: Sally Forth

The season’s most satisfying episode yet brings Pete, Peggy, Don, and Betty to the brink of major turning points — and brings one old friend back into the fold. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.04
  • 'The Arrangements'

Mad Men: The Decline and Fall of Dear Old Dad

An excursion into historical metaphor! 

  • S.03
  • Ep.03
  • 'My Old Kentucky Home'

Mad Men: Performance Anxiety

A spirited Charleston, a forced accordion solo, a blackface serenade, and a Tigertone duet, plus one heartfelt performance of "I Am Peggy, Hear Me Roar." 

  • S.03
  • Ep.02
  • 'Love Among the Ruins'

Mad Men: Changing the Conversation

One of our favorite episodes spirals around a nuanced debate between Don and Peggy — a multilayered meditation on the nature of feminine wiles. 

  • S.03
  • Ep.01
  • 'Out of Town'

Mad Men Season Premiere: Once a Dick, Always a Dick

Matthew Weiner loves to mess with us. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.13
  • 'Meditations in an Emergency'

Mad Men Season Finale: Near-Annihilation

Don is finally fascinated by his own catastrophe again. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.12
  • 'The Mountain King'

Mad Men: The End Is Nigh!

In this season's penultimate episode, the clouds — and the waves — suddenly break, and a light shines down upon a few chosen ones. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.11
  • 'The Jet Set'

Mad Men: A Case of Darkest Before the Dawn?

Betty gets some much-needed rest while everyone else goes haywire. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.10
  • 'The Inheritance'

Mad Men: Endgame

With just four episodes left, the pace is quickening. And this week, the show goes even darker. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.09
  • 'Six Month Leave'

Mad Men: The Noose Tightens

Betty is still on a tear. And Don isn't the only guy who gets the heave-ho. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.08
  • 'A Night to Remember'

Mad Men: Fight Night!

Last week, cuckolded comedian Jimmy Barrett told Don and Betty that he knew Don was shtupping his wife. This week, Betty freaks out. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.07
  • 'The Gold Violin'

Mad Men: What’s Matthew Weiner Driving At?

This week, Don looks in the mirror and thinks he's figured out what's wrong: That guy would look a lot better in a Cadillac. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.06
  • 'Maidenform'

Mad Men Writers Bone Up on Lacan

This episode, Peggy and Don take their circus act into a hall of mirrors. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.05
  • 'The New Girl'

Mad Men: Peggy 2.0

The escalating nuttiness at home and Peggy's utter placidness in the office seemed just more proof that Peggy is the only other Sterling Cooper employee with anything approaching Don's lockjaw discretion.  

  • S.02
  • Ep.04
  • 'Three Sundays'
  • S.02
  • Ep.03
  • 'The Benefactor'

Mad Men: Marriage As a Full-Contact Sport

Of course this week the show ditches both Peggy and Pete, while the other admen bring their wives into the ring. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.02
  • 'Flight 1'

Mad Men Crosses Into the Dark Side

The second episode of the most deviously unpredictable show on TV ditched everything already established this season. 

  • S.02
  • Ep.01
  • 'For Those Who Think Young'

Mad Men Season Premiere: Baby-Boomers Confuse and Frighten Don Draper

How do you sell a prestige product to a demanding Sunday-night audience who now expects nothing less than the next 'Sopranos'? Last night we found out! 

Schedule
Sundays, 10 p.m.
AMC
Cast
Creator
Matthew Weiner
Producers
Scott Hornbacher and Matthew Weiner
Debut
July 19, 2007
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