Mad Men

Don's season-long slide finally hits a backstop in a powerful season finale that's all about the characters.

Season 6's penultimate episode finds Don alienating himself even further, while Bob Benson's secret is finally confirmed

Sally Draper's future therapist is guaranteed plenty of work in a densely plotted episode about love, lust, and disappointment.

Don and Roger head to L.A. for some continental culture clash (and hash) while Joan scores a win at home

Betty and Don get nostalgic, while Peggy mortally wounds her relationship with Abe

Time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping as Don loses touch with reality in a surreal, febrile episode

The two agencies start to merge and deal with the politics of physical space, competing clients, and sensitive egos

It's Mother's Day in 1968 and Matthew Weiner delivers another game-changer

Joan goes out with a friend, Harry throws a tantrum, and Don's affair deepens

The two-hour season 6 opener finds Don and Megan in Hawaii, Roger in the therapist's chair, and Betty in the slums

In a low-key finale, Don ponders helping Megan's career, Pete resolves his impossible crush, and Joan moves the firm to new heights

A member of the firm commits suicide, as Don recaptures his hunger for success, and Sally experiences a major milestone

In a game-changing episode, Peggy and Joan make momentous decisions, and Don makes the big pitch to Jaguar

Lane digs into a deep financial hole, Joan and Don shop for a Jaguar, and Harry discovers Paul Kinsey has joined the Hare Krishnas

Betty tries to hurt Don, Sally tries to hurt Megan, Roger tries to hurt Pete, and Don tries to hurt Michael — so everyone got hurt

In parallel storylines, Peggy, Roger, and Don slam into some inconvenient truths — and, oh yeah, Roger drops acid!

Pete and Lane come to blows, Ken reveals a surprising talent, and Don wears a stupendous new sports coat

Don murders his past, Peggy murders a budding friendship, Joan murders her marriage, and Sally learns about some very real murders

Betty returns to the saga struggling with burdens of all sorts threatening her health and future in 'Tea Leaves'

The young and not-so-young chase significance, relevancy, and renewed prosperity amid changing, uneasy times in 'A Little Kiss'

In the finale of a brisk, brilliant season, Don makes a decision that no one at the office sees coming

Peggy and her Olympian shoulders step up in a time of crisis, while Roger continues to fade away

Don and Roger show cowardice and cruelty, while Betty and Pete play unlikely heroes

A death rocks the SCDP office, while the 'beautiful girls' of 'Mad Men' struggle to find their paths to happiness

Can Don, Roger, Betty, or Sally learn how to deal with their pasts?

Don grapples with saying goodbye to Anna, and SCDP rings in 1965

Don's anything but jolly as the holidays take their toll

His new agency may be up and running, but just who is Don Draper?

The impending sale of Sterling Cooper forces Don and his compatriots to take action, and Betty makes her move to leave him

It's time for Don to fess up to Betty about the truly intimate details of his life, while Roger also takes a look at his past

Don wins accolades while living his double life, and Betty catches on to the bigger lies

Sal ends up paying for Don knowing his secret, Betty opts out of an easy dalliance, and Don is back to his dirty-dog tricks

Betty and Don get their mojo back on a trip to Rome together, while Pete proves that he's not one to be trusted on his own

Don feels cornered as he's assaulted on all fronts even as he brings in a whale of an account, and Peggy turns to an unlikely source for comfort

Don and Betty welcome a new life and Peggy experiences a rebirth of confidence thanks to the reappearance of Duck

After Don deals with the effects of one father's legacy at work, he then has to go home and deal with Betty and the scars her father left her with

Roger's fancy garden party reminds Don that he's still on the outside looking in, while Peggy puffs her way a little further into the boys' club

Don makes a convincing case to get rid of a New York institution while embracing an old nemesis, and Peggy finds her old values leave her feeling a little lonely

Sterling Cooper's ad men are back. At the start of season 3, Don's up to his old tricks, Sal finds himself exposed, and Pete lusts after a promotion

The Cuban Missile Crisis looms, but it's Peggy who drops the real bomb in the season finale

Don/Dick reminisces with an old friend, while Joan loses all illusions about the man of her dreams

Don blows off his work trip in favor of a young temptress, while Peggy changes her look thanks to the new man in her life

Betty deals with the fact that neither the family she grew up in nor the one she's created is doing very well, and Pete might be a step closer to starting his own family

The death of an icon hovers over the ad men and women as a career and a marriage come to an end

Betty struggles to come to terms with Don's infidelity, while Joan briefly escapes her little box

Don trades up in cars but gets a dressing down from Jimmy, while Sal develops an office crush, and Roger steamrolls over Joan to lend a hand to Jane

While Peggy tries to find her place in the office world, it's Don's business outside the office that causes him distress

When Don is arrested for drunk driving after crashing his car with Bobbie, Peggy comes to the rescue, recalling the moment when he helped her walk away from her child

Over the course of three Sundays in Lent, Peggy's sister tells her secret, Sterling Cooper fails to land the big airline account, and Don is forced to tell Betty a truth about his past

Don and Betty have close encounters of the extramarital kind, but she gets weepy at the thought of being part of his 'team'

Peggy is forced to spend time with her family and her child; meanwhile, after Pete learns that his father died in an airplane crash, he uses the tragedy to advance his career

The second season starts up two years later, with Don feeling old, Betty getting edgier, and Peggy pulling rank