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“Is That All There Is?”

You’d be hard-pressed to find a harder-working song for a TV show than the angsty Peggy Lee ballad that struts into the opening moments of the final seven episodes of “Mad Men.” Yes, the tale of a cosmically unimpressed women is a tounge-in-cheek nod to the end of the show’s run. Yes, the singer is resigned, disillusioned, sighing an epic sigh. And, yes, the lyric nods to a central theme, if not core tenet, of the show — people don’t really change, even when the decade does.

The second half of the final season of “Mad Men” takes us to April 1970, though you’d only be able to tell that if you bothered to hunt down the Nixon TV address announcing a U.S. invasion of Cambodia or know a scary lot about L’eggs. The action more suggests the passing of time, with touches like new, full mustaches, than broadcasts it. Bert Cooper’s death is nearly a year in the rear-view, as is the sale of 51% of Sterling Cooper & Partners to McCann-Erickson. That relationship apparently is turning out touchier than was promised.

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