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"When Digital Spy interviewed Jon Hamm before the start of season five of Mad Men, he posed us the questions: &amp;quot;Do people ever really change? Or do they just move in circles?&amp;quot; His comments can now be looked back upon as a spoiler for the journey Mad Men took in season five. Fights, LCD-trips, suicides and the arrival of Jaguar at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce may have hinted at new beginnings or change for the show&amp;#039;s leads.   However, by the end of this week&amp;#039;s finale episode &amp;#039;The Phantom&amp;#039;, it appeared nothing had changed at all. Pete was a snivelling wretch, who managed to get his own, but appears to have learned nothing from his affairs or disgusting behaviour towards the late Lane Pryce. Roger is still a womanising sleaze. He just happens to be a womanising sleaze on LSD who likes standing around in his birthday suit now. Meanwhile, Don is back to being the swaggering James Bond-esque sly old dog that he&amp;#039;s been trying to move on from all series. Megan&amp;#039;s decision to use Don to bag herself a role in a tacky advert and the exit of Lane in last week&amp;#039;s episode appear to have shaken Don back to his sordid roots. That final smouldering look to the camera from Hamm. Wow. Cooler than a polar bear with shades on. As a viewer there was a mixture of comfort and despair at this circling of storylines. Don&amp;#039;s return to his strutting,eye-twinkling, bar-boozing ways will have brought a smile to many people&amp;#039;s faces. But is his failure to escape and move on from his past not also slightly disheartening?  And if Don&amp;#039;s return to bed-hopping doesn&amp;#039;t depress, then surely Pete&amp;#039;s (the sublime Vincent Kartheiser) snagging of a s**g pad in the city away from Trudy and his overall miserable train wreck of a life will have dragged you down. On a more upbeat note, the company finally has a second floor (yay for Bert getting his own office!), we saw Peggy again (hurrah!) and we couldn&amp;#039;t be any more excited for season six if you delivered it on a plate on top of a naked Christina Hendricks. The only negative? We&amp;#039;ll have to wait another year for more Mad Men. Someone fetch us a bottle of best whiskey. What did you think of the Mad Men finale? Voice your verdict below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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