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EPISODE
SEASON
Mad Men - Season 7 Episode 8: Severance
Don attempts to return to his advertising agency after being put on indefinite leave following a meltdown in the middle of a client meeting. Eventually, his status at the firm becomes the focus of a bitter power struggle between Roger and Jim, both of whom want to take Sterling Cooper & Partners in radically different directions. The highly anticipated series conclusion will, for the last time, follow the complex lives of Don, Peggy, Roger, Joan, Betty and Pete as their stories come to an end. It's the End of an Era.
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April 05, 2015
"Severance" marks a fitting start to the last weeks of Mad Men, as the mist of missed opportunity permeates through the agency air.April 02, 2015
This premiere episode is promising in that it indicates that we might be coming back not exactly to where we started, but at least to the original questions the show posed.April 02, 2015
"Severance" picks up this baton and twirls it in surprising and often elliptical ways.April 06, 2015
While these themes of self-hatred and relapse are as tired and flawed as our antihero, Weiner manages to craft a beautiful and poignant episode on nostalgia's nastier and more painful cousin: regret.April 06, 2015
I'm hoping we see more of Stevie - he seems perfect for Peggy. How great was it to watch Elisabeth Moss let loose with giant smiles.April 03, 2015
After an uneven first half of Season 7, "Severance" felt like it confidently eased back into familiar territory, but with the added intensity of knowing time is running out.April 02, 2015
I'll say that the themes that have defined Mad Men are still very much at play in "Severance" as is Weiner's willingness to spend time with characters outside of his core group of regulars.April 06, 2015
If Season 7a was about Don's resurgence in the business world, it appears 7b will focus on Don's quest for personal fulfillment.April 06, 2015
Weiner explored the meaning of life without going pretentious or heavy-handed. Don's terrific downer in Sunday's episode suggests that Mad Men will receive a finish befitting a landmark series.April 02, 2015
In the annals of Mad Men season restarts, the "Severance" episode may be the most underwhelming of them all. Nothing about this series ever plunges to the depths of terrible. But as galvanizing hours of television go, this isn't Mad Men with a bang.