HD Recap: Christmas in August
This week brings a ‘Mad Men’ episode set during Christmastime. Now, this makes sense because last week we were treated to a Thanksgiving episode. But I also feel like a deliberate calculation on the part of Matthew Weiner and the rest of the crackpot geniuses on the writing and production staff. They want us to feel misplaced like the characters are feeling misplaced, disjointed and out-of-place. There’s a new office, Betty’s in a new family situation, and Don is trying on a number of visages. I know that the creators probably don’t care when a show is watched anymore – especially in an era of TiVo, iTunes and everything else – but it really does add a lot to the Christmas episode, seeing it in August.
