'Mad Men' Turns Up The Heat As The End Nears

 

 "The message throughout this hour, which was filled with visual and thematic callbacks to the history of the show, was that Don Draper and his cronies were dinosaurs. They had been fed into the machine so smoothly that they didn’t even realize they’d been digested. They were done; they were no longer in power, and they were the last people to realize that. 

There have been innumerable situations in which the senior employees of Don’s firm -- all the various incarnations of it -- have seemed clueless, out of touch, tin-eared, unwilling or unable to truly understand the changes the world was going through. They all ape the fashions of the times and have grown their hair out, but do they grasp that many centers of power have shifted radically in the last decade? Not really. They tried to harness the energy of the youthquake of the ‘60s here and there, but the true import of all the cultural and social changes of the last decade more or less passed them by.

But that may not matter as much as their inability to spot the financial evolutions affecting not just their business but all of corporate America. "

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'Mad Men' Turns Up The Heat As The End Nears