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EPISODE
SEASON
Mad Men - Season 7 Episode 4: The Monolith
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.
















19 June 1974, San Francisco, California, USA



24 September 1987, New York City, New York, USA

10 February 1988, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK


11 July 1952, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA



24 March 1988, Houston, Texas, USA

7 January 1990, New York City, New York, USA




19 September 1948, Portland, Oregon, USA


5 November 1976, Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, USA




7 May 1949, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA




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30 May 1962, Sonoma, California, USA



































January 04, 2015
Throughout the episode, the shrew-ing of Peggy Olson continued. She went from being insecure and irritating to now being a total nightmare. I'm starting to question why the show is taking her down such a dark path.
January 04, 2015
Unlike most of what came before on Mad Men, most of this episode wasn't made to be an enjoyable effort to decode -- it was laid out as directly, if not more so, as any episode yet to air. But did it have to feel so lifeless?
January 04, 2015
It's not the series' greatest Stanley Kubrick homage, but "The Monolith" is almost certainly titled in reference to the towering black engines of evolution that punctuate the great director's 2001: A Space Odyssey.
January 04, 2015
Overall, "The Monolith" is an unbelievably strong hour of Mad Men. No huge movements of plot or dramatic twists, but something just as exciting: a sense of urgency.
January 04, 2015
"Boring" is a strong word, so let's just say last night's Mad Men was no fun. This entire season has been devoid of joy.
January 04, 2015
Sunday's "Mad Men" found Don Draper back where he started: writing tag lines, this time under the supervision of his former secretary. The show's exit music nicely captured how much he's spinning in circles.
January 04, 2015
This week's episode was easily the most heavy-handed in the metaphor department, but for some reason... none of it felt trite.
January 04, 2015
An unsettling episode for viewers. More unsettling for Don, Roger and Peggy, all of whom slammed into unpleasant truths they'd have preferred to avoid. The last scene felt like the writers saying, "We gotta give 'em SOMETHING that's a little hopeful."