Note: Full spoilers for the episode follow.
Well, it was time to get trippy on Mad Men again! After last season's "Far Away Places", which not only had a very unusual structure, but also had Roger Sterling on acid, this was Season 6's turn to get very weird.
I'm assuming this episode will probably divide audiences, but I loved it. The "what the hell?!" of it all was established in the very first scene, with Ken caught in some sort of bizarre scenario that felt like a movie-inspired dream… but turned out to be very real, as we learned that Chevy is apparently a rather hellish client to deal with.
But we were just getting started, in an hour that found most of the men at, um, whatever this company is called taking speed Jesse Spano's caffeine pills an "energy serum" while trying to brainstorm for Chevy over a weekend. But this was mostly about Don's journey, who was going into this situation already in an especially dark place (and this is Don we're talking about), given how distraught and outright creepy he was being about Sylvia. The eavesdropping/stalking was a new dynamic for Don, and it was impressive to see Sylvia talk so tough with him – "I don't know how I ever trusted you" – as she basically stressed that he needed to keep his s**t together now that they'd ended their affair.
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