‘Mad Men’ Recap: A Happy Family
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“It’s nice to see family happiness again,” says the ever buffoonish Lou Avery toward the beginning of the 84th episode of a show that has systematically destroyed — or at least gravely endangered — just about every family it has portrayed.
He’s responding to a Burger Chef idea from Peggy positing not only that this fast-food chain is the glue for the harried contemporary family but also something much bigger: that something like family happiness is even possible post-divorce, sexual revolution, Vietnam and media-driven atomization and so on and so forth.
Everyone, Don included, loves the idea, but that doesn’t prevent the dethroned creative royal from undermining his once-charge-now-boss in a get-under-your-skin way that only family members can do. It says everything you need to know about the role of the familial unit in “Mad Men.”
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