The Best of This Week’s Mad Men Recaps

 Stanley Kubrick's influence was particularly pervasive; although, as he writes, "The episode's desolate, desperate feeling is more The Shining than 2001, and not just because of Roger's grandson's vaguely Danny-like haircut or the fact that its main character is an alcoholic writer struggling to dry out while living in a 'haunted' office previously inhabited by a man who killed himself and having deep conversations with a guy named Lloyd." This week, the critics parsed the subtle and not-so-subtle meanings of the episode's many visual metaphors, from Portnoy's Complaint to Lane's Mets Pennant, and of course, the new computer. Your recap of the recaps:

The Best of This Week’s Mad Men Recaps -- Vulture