Don Draper is going to have a breakdown

[MADem]

20. I'll bet it was deliberate. I am very impressed with Matthew Weiner.

It's very astounding that he wasn't even born in the era when the first years of his creation were playing out! He was born in sixty five, so he was three during the present season!

His research is really good. His sets, his attention to detail, the clothing, fashions, attitudes, it all rings very true to people who lived through that era . The smoking, the drinking, the workplace shittiness, the urban decay--it's all there. He might focus on issues that still resonate today, but he doesn't overlay 21st Century solutions on mid-sixties scenarios.

About the only real weakness in the MM script writing is a tendency for the characters to say (quite frequently, in fact--in many, MANY episodes) "I don't know what to say." I've often thought it would be funny if someone would watch all of the episodes and make a video montage of all the characters saying that, because I think most of them have said it at least once, with Don Draper saying it a LOT down the years. I sometimes wondered if the script writers used that phrase as a place holder until they figured out something better TO say, and then either forgot or ran out of time!