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Don and Peggy’s complex friendship in Mad Men is a standout part of the series, shifting from power plays to genuine respect.
Donald Draper is an iconic character, but it's easy to forget he's not who people think he is. Only a few characters know who Don Draper truly is.
There's a cottage industry of people claiming they know who the real life person Mad Men's Don Draper is based upon. Here are five contenders for the source of the Draper backstory.
That didn’t last long. In last week’s episode of Mad Men, we saw Don Draper so anxious for a second chance—make that another chance—that he agrees to a series of stipulations that seemed ...
After last Sunday’s painful Mad Men episode (and this whole season has really been a long, bitter exercise in chewing glass), the fragile mystique of Don Draper suffered a few more cracks.
Don Draper was somewhere in each and every one of us. Sometimes we were desperate to be him, other times he was the man and the idea that we wanted to avoid becoming. Whichever side of the ...
Don Draper’s gone through two wives, a schoolteacher, a neighbor, a prostitute, and a handful of blondes. He’s slept with religious Jews and devout Catholics, young single women and unhappy wives.
It turns out that Don Draper wrote the famous 1971 Coke commercial, but these ads would have been thematically appropriate, too.
Don Draper, the ultra-suave star of AMC's Mad Men series, gets around. He's been married twice, divorced once, slapped, manipulated, and heartbroken. Through it all, his new romantic interests ...
Don Draper finally told the truth, and it ruined his life. Perhaps that shouldn't have been such a surprise. Because Don has mostly been a master of the lie — especially in the form of an ad pitch.
Don’s sexual issues make slightly more sense when you take into account where they started: Dick Whitman (Draper’s original identity) is “a whore’s child,” as his stepmother liked to ...