'Mad Men' Has Ended Four Episodes in a Row With the Same

 

The ending of "The Forecast," the fifth-to-last episode of "Mad Men," found Don Draper only a few feet from where he'd been at the previous week: Instead of standing in his empty apartment, he was just outside the door, the camera pulling away as he realized just how little he had left. But that wasn't the only reason viewers might have experienced a sense of déjà vu. That shot, with Hamm slowly coming to terms with the shambles he made of his life, took me back to the end of "Waterloo," the end of the seventh season's first half, where Don went from the triumph of the McCann buyout, which allowed him to keep his job and profit handsomely, to a musical reminder from the late Bert Cooper that "the best things in life are free" — those being exactly the things that Don doesn't have. Let's compare the two, in handy GIF form:
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