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"OK, maybe it was only his second creepiest stunt ever&amp;amp;#8212;I do recall the awful choking stuff. But Don Draper&amp;#x27;s whole imprisonment routine on last night&amp;#x27;s Mad Men was more or less his skeeviest prolonged stunt ever. (If I could bring myself to add to her abuse, I would&amp;#x27;ve slapped Sylvia for being so game about the whole thing.) Emphasis on prolonged, by the way: We checked in with the story line so many uncomfortable times. And my stomach turned every time Don issued another command and Sylvia, after blinking like a stunned deer, gave a little grin and went along with it. The whole shoes thing put me over the top. Honestly, Don. You wanna keep something in a cage? Get a pet bird. And you, Sylvia: I get that you don&amp;#x27;t work, but for crying out loud, who in any decade or domestic situation would really be able to just chill in a hotel for days at a time? Also, did you wonder whether Don&amp;#x27;s no-phone rule included outgoing calls to room service? There was, however, a payoff for enduring all this winceworthy role-play. Most of Don&amp;#x27;s moral lows, if memory serves, sort of just happen, with no comeuppance in sight&amp;amp;#8212;we just have to finish the episode and try to shake it off on our own. But last night, once Sylvia finally, you know, shattered her Saks-inspired Stockholm syndrome, we actually got to see Don get dumped. Has it ever been so sickly satisfying to see tears in someone&amp;#x27;s eyes? (P.S. This whole arc, and the humbling it brought down on Don&amp;#x27;s head, reminded me of the Adam-Natalia incident on last season of Girls.) There&amp;#x27;s something else afoot too: It seemed like just as Don&amp;#x27;s romance infallibility evaporated, so too did his heretofore unchallenged domination at everything: work, coolness, generally being the paragon of manhood. The new kids in the office (and the old kids, if you count Peggy) aren&amp;#x27;t impressed with Draper&amp;#x27;s flaky workplace ways. Megan&amp;#x27;s so busy, she hardly notices him, let alone the fact that he&amp;#x27;s compensating for her independence by playing fancy hotel captor. And as our characters mourned the death of Bobby Kennedy, the air seemed to reek of Don&amp;#x27;s out-of-dateness. What it all adds up to, I suspect, is: Draper&amp;#x27;s going down (and down, and down) for the rest of season six. The world that&amp;#x27;s changing&amp;amp;#8212;that has to change&amp;amp;#8212;is all over his suddenly very stressed face. What did you think of last night&amp;#x27;s Mad Men? Photo: AMC"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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