Mad Men season 6

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Mad Men
Season 6
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Season 6 promotional poster
by Brian Sanders [1]
Starring
No. of episodes13
Release
Original network AMC
Original releaseApril 7 (2013-04-07) 
June 23, 2013 (2013-06-23)
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The sixth season of the American television drama series Mad Men premiered on April 7, 2013, with a two-hour episode and concluded on June 23, 2013. It consisted of thirteen episodes, each running for approximately 48 minutes. AMC broadcast the sixth season on Sundays at 10:00 pm (ET) in the United States. [2] The season premiered in the UK on Sky Atlantic on April 10, 2013. [3] The sixth season was released on DVD and Blu-ray in region 1 on November 5, 2013. [4] Season six takes place between December 1967 and November 1968, with characters struggling to adjust to the changing office dynamics based on the counterculture movement. The sixth season of Mad Men received critical acclaim and appeared on several year-end lists, placing fourth for most overall mentions by critics. [5]

Contents

Cast

Main cast

Recurring cast

Guest stars

Episodes

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"The Doorway" Scott Hornbacher Matthew Weiner April 7, 2013 (2013-04-07)3.37 [6]
Don and Megan take a vacation to Hawaii for a new client, Sheraton Hotels. Roger receives news of his mother's death and at the funeral, his estranged daughter Margaret attempts to cajole Roger into investing in her husband's refrigeration business idea. Peggy is thriving at her new job at Cutler, Gleason and Chaough, and saves a Super Bowl ad from being pulled. Ken Cosgrove becomes suspicious of the intentions of Bob Benson, an eager to please junior accounts man. Betty goes to Greenwich Village to try to rescue a friend of Sally's and decides to change her look after a confrontation with Village squatters. Later, Don is revealed to be having an affair with his neighbor Sylvia Rosen (Linda Cardellini).
683"Collaborators" Jon Hamm Jonathan Igla and Matthew WeinerApril 14, 2013 (2013-04-14)2.66 [7]
Pete and Trudy host a dinner party for their neighbors in Cos Cob. Pete flirts with his neighbor's wife, Brenda, and they meet for a tryst in his Manhattan apartment. When Trudy discovers the affair, she kicks Pete out of their home. Megan confides to Sylvia about her miscarriage and admits it to Don, prompting an awkward conversation over whether they want children. At SCDP, the Heinz Baked Beans representative brings the Heinz Ketchup representative in for a meeting, but makes it clear that he does not want SCDP to work with Heinz Ketchup. Nevertheless, SCDP decides to prepare a pitch for Heinz Ketchup. Stan lets the Heinz Ketchup news slip to Peggy, who shares it with Ted Chaough. Ted decides CGC should try to poach Heinz Ketchup, making Peggy feel guilty. Client Herb Rennet of Jaguar returns to the SCDP office, making Don and Joan uncomfortable. Don has flashbacks to his adolescence growing up in a brothel with his stepmother.
694"To Have and to Hold" Michael Uppendahl Erin Levy April 21, 2013 (2013-04-21)2.40 [8]
SCDP prepares a pitch for Heinz Ketchup but is discovered by Heinz Baked Beans and immediately fired from that account. The firm later learns it is in a “bake-off” with CGC; Don secretly listens to Peggy’s pitch and is both impressed and unsettled that she employs techniques she learned from him. At a bar afterward, Ted reveals Heinz Ketchup never intended to leave its larger agency and used SCDP and CGC to leverage a better rate. Joan attempts to fire Scarlett, Harry's secretary, for persuading Dawn to falsify a time card. Enraged, Harry storms into a partners’ meeting, questioning Joan’s partnership status despite his own achievements. Bert and Roger reward him with a bonus for his work on the Joe Namath special sponsored by Dow Chemical but refuse him partnership. Embarrassed, Joan promotes Dawn to handle office management duties. Joan’s childhood friend Kate from Spokane visits seeking a night out. Meanwhile, Megan and Don dine with Mel, head writer of the soap opera To Have And To Hold, and his wife Arlene, who unsuccessfully proposition them for group sex. Don later grows uneasy about Megan’s televised sex scene and surprises her on set, embarrassing her.
705"The Flood"Christopher ManleyTom Smuts and Matthew WeinerApril 28, 2013 (2013-04-28)2.38 [9]
On April 4, 1968, Peggy and Megan are up for an advertising award for Heinz Beans when the announcement that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been assassinated comes in. Work shuts down at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce as regularly scheduled television programming has been temporarily replaced by news reports about the assassination and resulting riots. Michael's father sets him up on a date with a daughter of a family friend. Pete calls Harry a racist for being more concerned about losing money over the tragedy, with Bert Cooper unsuccessfully attempting to mediate, before he closes the office and sends everyone home. Don, Stan and Michael meet with Roger's unorthodox acquaintance who is considering SCDP's services for his insurance agency. Peggy looks at buying an apartment on the Upper East Side, with financially lacking Abe dismayed at its location. He convinces Peggy to buy a building on the Upper West Side that they can renovate together. Henry decides to run for public office. Betty calls Don when he forgets to pick up the kids. Megan tells Don he's drinking too much and neglecting his children. Don takes Bobby to see Planet of the Apes .
716"For Immediate Release" Jennifer Getzinger Matthew WeinerMay 5, 2013 (2013-05-05)2.45 [10]
SCDP prepares for an IPO without Don’s knowledge. Megan’s mother Marie visits, and Roger persuades her to attend a dinner with Jaguar. At the dinner, Don, contemptuous of Herb, abruptly tells him SCDP no longer wants his business, enraging the partners—especially Joan, who is furious given her paid tryst with Herb to land the deal. Meanwhile, SCDP loses the Vicks account after Pete encounters his father-in-law at a brothel, jeopardizing the relationship. Roger then secures SCDP a meeting with General Motors for the new Chevy project XP-887. In Detroit, Don discovers Ted Chaough of CGC at the same bar, and they realize General Motors plans to award the account to Dancer Fitzgerald, using SCDP and CGC merely to stage a competitive process and mine their ideas. To counter this, Don proposes merging the two agencies to improve their chances; the partners agree, and the merger succeeds. Afterward, Don and Ted name a stunned Peggy copy chief of the new firm and assign her to draft the press release announcing the merger. The loss of Vicks also leads Trudy to reject Pete’s denial about her father and throw him out.
727"Man with a Plan" John Slattery Semi Chellas and Matthew WeinerMay 12, 2013 (2013-05-12)2.36 [11]
Following the merger, the combined creative teams of SCDP and CGC begin brainstorming a margarine campaign for Fleischmann's. Don feels threatened by Ted’s authority and, after accepting Sylvia’s invitation for a midday tryst, arrives late to the meeting. Ted publicly rebukes him; later, Don attempts to make peace by sharing drinks, but Ted becomes visibly drunk, drawing Peggy’s frustration. Traveling to Buffalo for a meeting, Don continues asserting control in his affair by confining Sylvia to a hotel room without telling her when he will return. When he does, Sylvia ends the relationship, saying she dreamt of his death and having to console Megan at his funeral. Meanwhile, Pete’s mother begins exhibiting signs of dementia. As CGC employees move into the office, Joan becomes ill; Bob Benson discreetly takes her to the hospital and arranges faster treatment. Roger fires Bob’s superior, Burt Peterson, but Joan, grateful for Bob’s help, intervenes to save his position. The staff then learns that Robert F. Kennedy has been assassinated, and as Megan watches the news in distress, Don struggles privately with the fallout from Sylvia’s departure.
738"The Crash"Michael Uppendahl Jason Grote and Matthew WeinerMay 19, 2013 (2013-05-19)2.16 [12]
After Ken crashes a car with drunk Chevy executives and another pitch fails, Don orders weekend work. Sylvia calls, pretending to be Arnold, then begs Don to stop pursuing her, fearing his obsessive behavior; he angrily throws the phone and begins coughing, triggering flashbacks to his feverish childhood in a brothel, where Abigail sends him to the cellar and Aimée, a prostitute, tends to him. At the agency, staff experiment with an energy serum following Frank Gleason’s death, behaving erratically. Don, manic, insists he can win Chevy by presenting in person, gives an empty motivational speech, and fixates on a childhood memory that leads him to an oatmeal ad reading “Because you know what he needs.” Flashbacks show Aimée seducing the frightened young Don and Abigail later beating him when she learns of it. Meanwhile, Stan is injured during horseplay, kisses Peggy, and confides his cousin’s death; she urges him to feel grief. At home, Sally confronts a woman calling herself “Ida,” whom she suspects is a con woman and calls police on; Don later realizes he left the door unlocked and faints. Recovering, he rebuffs further Chevy work.
749"The Better Half" Phil Abraham Erin Levy and Matthew WeinerMay 26, 2013 (2013-05-26)1.88 [13]
Megan is criticized by the director of her soap opera for her performance as twins, and invites Arlene to the apartment for comfort; when Megan admits feeling lonely, Arlene attempts to kiss her, but Megan rebuffs her. Roger takes his grandson Ellery to a frightening film, undermining Margaret’s trust. Peggy grows increasingly anxious about neighborhood crime after Abe is stabbed in the hand nearby; later, when she is startled at home, she accidentally stabs Abe in the abdomen, and during the ambulance ride he ends their relationship. Pete meets discreetly with Duck Phillips, now a corporate headhunter, who questions Pete’s standing at the merged agency and proposes he leave for an in-house Head of Marketing role in Wichita, but Pete refuses to leave New York. Betty becomes lost driving Bobby to summer camp and, after spotting Don at a gas station, follows him to the lodge; the three reconnect, and that night Betty and Don sleep together. The next morning, the encounter goes unacknowledged as Betty sits with Henry while Don remains alone. Roger gives Joan a gift for Kevin, but Joan insists Greg, though absent, is the more suitable father figure and that Roger is unreliable.
7510"A Tale of Two Cities"John Slattery Janet Leahy and Matthew WeinerJune 2, 2013 (2013-06-02)2.45 [14]
Set against the backdrop of the 1968 Democratic National Convention and ensuing confrontation between police and protesters in Chicago, Don, Roger, and Harry travel to Los Angeles to meet with clients, including Carnation. The three attend a Hollywood party, where Don smokes hashish and hallucinates a pregnant, hippie Megan. Former employee Danny Siegel, who was fired by Roger for being a poor copywriter, is at the party, now working as a successful director and producer. Don winds up face down in the pool and Roger saves him. In New York, Joan meets a client for cosmetics giant Avon. Seeing this as her opportunity to bring some legitimacy to her status as a partner, Joan deliberately cuts Pete out of a meeting. After a scolding from Ted and Pete, Peggy saves Joan with a fake phone call from Avon. Ted informs the other partners that he has broken through the management layers at Chevy, and Jim Cutler later adds Bob to the account, without input from Roger or Don, who are still in California. Jim struggles connecting with the SCDP staff, in particular Michael Ginsberg. "Sterling Cooper & Partners" is decided as the name of the recently merged firm.
7611"Favors"Jennifer GetzingerSemi Chellas and Matthew WeinerJune 9, 2013 (2013-06-09)2.17 [15]
Roger tells Don about pursuing Sunkist, and they inform Ted before a partners’ meeting; Ted angrily objects because he and Jim are pitching Ocean Spray, creating a conflict. Sally and Julie stay with Don and Megan for a Model United Nations event and meet the Rosens’ son Mitchell, who has left college and is classified 1-A for the draft. Don mentions Mitchell’s situation at a Chevy dinner, and Ted later offers a contact in the Air National Guard to help Mitchell, but only if Don drops Sunkist. Don reaches Sylvia instead of Dr. Rosen, and she is thrilled and grateful for his intervention. Julie signs Sally’s name to a note praising Mitchell and slips it under the Rosens’ door; when Sally tries to retrieve it, she finds Don and Sylvia having sex and runs out. That night, Dr. Rosen and Mitchell thank Don, while Sally withdraws. Don tells her he was "comforting" Sylvia. Meanwhile, Pete’s mother grows confused about her nurse Manolo, and when Pete questions Bob, who recommended him, Bob makes a subtle advance that Pete rejects.
7712"The Quality of Mercy"Phil Abraham Andre Jacquemetton & Maria Jacquemetton June 16, 2013 (2013-06-16)2.06 [16]
While upland hunting in Michigan with Chevy executives, Ken is accidentally shot in the face with birdshot. Back in New York, he tells Pete he can no longer handle the stress of the Chevy account; Pete seizes the opportunity to take it over, and the partners approve, assigning Bob to assist. Suspicious of Bob, Pete asks Duck to investigate and learns Bob falsified his background and had worked as a West Virginia manservant; Pete confronts Bob but keeps the secret to retain leverage. Don takes a day off when Harry reports that Sunkist wants to expand into television; though Don cites a conflict with Ocean Spray, he reverses course after seeing Ted and Peggy together at a movie. Attempting to mend tensions, Don supports Ted during a St. Joseph Aspirin pitch but undercuts and humiliates him, later warning that Ted’s feelings for Peggy impair his judgment. Peggy angrily rebukes Don. Meanwhile, Betty tells Don she and Henry may send Sally to boarding school. Betty and Sally visit a school overnight, where Sally impresses her peers by inviting boys who bring alcohol and drugs; the next day, Betty says the school’s evaluation of Sally was favorable.
7813"In Care Of"Matthew Weiner Carly Wray and Matthew WeinerJune 23, 2013 (2013-06-23)2.69 [17]
Stan volunteers to relocate to California to build Sunkist, and the agency receives an RFP from Hershey's Chocolate, assigning Don to pitch. After a drunken fight with a preacher lands him in jail, Don tells Megan he wants to move west and start over. Betty informs him Sally has been suspended for Thanksgiving. Pete learns his mother fell from a cruise ship and had married her nurse Manolo; suspecting murder, he blames Bob, who then exposes Pete’s poor driving before Chevy executives and takes over the account. Ted confesses his love to Peggy and sleeps with her, but decides to move to California with his family to run Sunkist and distance himself. Don first refuses the transfer, then delivers an initially polished Hershey pitch before suddenly confessing he was raised in a brothel and that Hershey bars were rare treats earned collecting coins from clients; he tells the executives they do not need advertising. He then yields Sunkist to Ted. The partners place Don on mandatory leave, naming Peggy acting creative head as Ted relocates. Megan leaves Don, Pete departs for Los Angeles, Joan invites Roger for Kevin’s sake, and Don shows his children the brothel where he grew up.

Production and writing

Matthew Weiner and the rest of the writers began work on the sixth season in July 2012. [18] Principal photography for the sixth season began in October 2012. [19] Cast members John Slattery and Jon Hamm each again directed episodes this season; Slattery directed two, while Hamm directed one episode. Slattery had previously directed three episodes for the series, while Hamm made his directorial debut in season five with the episode "Tea Leaves". [20] The two-hour premiere had portions shot on-location in Hawaii. [21] Weiner commented on the structure of the premiere, saying, "it's really constructed like a film. It is its own story and hopefully it foreshadows the rest of the season." [2] Weiner said regarding the final 26 episodes of the series, "I can feel the end coming. I also felt like I'm not going to do 13 episodes of set-up; it should set itself up as it goes, as it always does." [2] Executive producers and writing team Andre Jacquemetton and Maria Jacquemetton, the only writers besides Weiner to be on the writing staff for every season, departed the series after the conclusion of the sixth season to develop new projects. [22]

Crew

Series creator Matthew Weiner also served as showrunner and executive producer, and is credited as a writer on 11 of the 13 episodes of the season, often co-writing the episodes with another writer. Erin Levy was promoted to producer and wrote two episodes. Semi Chellas was promoted to supervising producer and wrote two episodes. Janet Leahy was promoted to executive producer and wrote one episode. Writing team Andre Jacquemetton and Maria Jacquemetton continued as executive producers and co-wrote one episode together. Jonathan Igla was promoted to story editor and wrote one episode. New additions to the writing staff included co-producer Tom Smuts; staff writer Jason Grote and Carly Wray, who served as an assistant to the writers.

Scott Hornbacher, Michael Uppendahl, Jennifer Getzinger, John Slattery, and Phil Abraham each directed two episodes for the season. The remaining episodes were directed by cast member Jon Hamm, cinematographer Christopher Manley, and series creator Matthew Weiner, who directs each season finale.

Reception

Critical response

The sixth season of Mad Men received widespread critical acclaim. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 98% of 44 critics have given the season a positive review with an average score of 8.6/10. The site's consensus is: "The passage of time has done little to dull Mad Men's rich cast of characters, who continue to confound." [23] On Metacritic, the sixth season scored an 88 out of 100 based on 28 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [24]

David Hinckley of New York Daily News had high praise for the show's longevity, claiming that "While many shows that have reached this point in the road have left their creative peak behind, Mad Men shows no such erosion. It still has things it wants to say and it still has the poetry to say them well. [25] With regard to the season's first episode, Tim Goodman of The Hollywood Reporter stated "What’s intriguing and partly amazing about the two hour "movie" called "The Doorway" that opens the season April 7 is that Weiner has not lost his touch at writing a beautifully crafted script—jammed with the sadness and humor and personal revelations we’ve all come to appreciate. But in addition to that, he's decided to really hit home Mad Men's key theme in the first two hours with a kind of ferocity of intent we’ve rarely seen from him." [26] Jeff Jensen of Entertainment Weekly had a decidedly more mixed reaction, stating "Like Betty's frumpy frocks, Mad Men supersize episodes aren't flattering. Weiner should stick with tighter, denser storytelling packages. I hope he also delivers the season of change that the premiere seems to promise." [27] Matt Zoller Seitz of Vulture says that "It's a clever, at times tricky season opener. In "Lost"-like style, it strategically withholds key information that would help us make immediate sense of Don's behavior, which by turns suggests a prisoner, a sleepwalker, and a ghost." [28]

Jace Lacob of the Daily Beast stated that "Weiner is both archeologist and astronaut, and Season 6 of Mad Men is no exception, a beautifully realized and dazzling re-creation of our collective past and a glimpse of the infinite and unknowable." [29] Alan Sepinwall of HitFix said "It continues to be one of the most satisfying dramas in the history of the medium." [30] David Wiegland of the San Francisco Chronicle said that "Don Draper's journey has been and remains maddening, in a very good way as far as what makes a great TV show" and that "Like a great novel, Mad Men has character depths yet to plumb." [31] In a rave review, Maureen Ryan of The Huffington Post stated that "The AMC drama is full of sharp writing, ambiguous segues, effective surprises and the usual array of pitch-perfect performances." [32]

Accolades

For the 65th Primetime Emmy Awards, the sixth season received 12 nominations, including for Outstanding Drama Series, Jon Hamm for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, Elisabeth Moss for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, Christina Hendricks for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series, Robert Morse and Harry Hamlin for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series, and Linda Cardellini for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series. [33]

The season was nominated for Best Drama Series for the 2014 Writers Guild of America Awards. [34]

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