What Did You Think Of “Mad Men” Finale?
EW.com says: ‘It’s been an understandable complaint issued by even some of “Mad Men”‘s most ardent fans (including EW’s Ken Tucker) that the last few episodes of season 5 have traded subtle character shifts for sledgehammer shocks. Not to mention that every new installment threatened to spin its plot threads a little bit more obviously around a central unifying theme. So you would have guessed that the finale, titled “The Phantom,†would have saved the most jarring reveals for the end. But not so! By my reckoning at least, ‘The Phantom†was a welcome return — maybe even a payoff – to season 5′s early potential as a prismatic character study and not an inventory of “shocking twists.‒
