http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/28/MAD-MEN----Long-Weekend.aspx Once you get into it, MAD MEN may just be one of the best shows on TV right now. Just as none of the characters are comfortable in their own skin, the show never lets you get comfortable next to it.  There is hidden meaning in everything, even something as fundamentally dramatic as a heart attack. Everyone is wrestling with who they are, and who they are supposed to be. I was a little surprised that tonight’s episode didn’t begin with Betty Draper getting carted off to the insane asylum, where she belongs. Last we saw her she was shooting her neighbor’s passenger pigeons out of the air with a rifle in her bathrobe. At the start tonight I saw the suitcases, and thought “Ah!” They’ve finally realized that she is batshit crazy! But no, she’s off to the beach for the weekend with her father and his new special lady friend. Betty could not be less approving. Don talks her off a ledge. This being MAD MEN, nothing goes how you think it’s going to. Don’s now got a night in the city, which on MAD MEN is an excuse for bad behavior. Roger, who never disappoints, corrals him into picking up some models; twins, Max. They retire to Roger’s office for cocktails and seduction. Don is clearly uncomfortable in the situation. Not that he has any scruples about infidelity; I just think Don doesn’t want any thing that’s too easy. Both his mistresses are modern and brunette. One’s an artist in Greenwich Village, the other is a scion of a department store fortune, and actually holds a high-powered job. They are as far from Betty, his prattling crazy blond wife as you can get. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/28/MAD-MEN----Long-Weekend.aspx 77 60 http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/28/MAD-MEN----Long-Weekend.aspx#1568 Best show on TV by far, and the best episode yet. Uncomfortable yet totally captures you the way the best episodes of The Soprano's did. Thank God there is some intelligent TV out there. BrackAttack http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/09/28/MAD-MEN----Long-Weekend.aspx#1568 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 16:21:11 GMT