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1 Film Excess win:
Best Child Actor: Kiernan Shipka
2 Film Excess nominations:
Best Child Actor: Kiernan Shipka (won)
Best TV-series (lost to Treme S1)
+ Best Continued TV-series of the Year
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| The suave, elegant poster for the fourth season of Matthew Weiner's Mad Men (2007-15) |
The following summary of the season contains SPOILERS:
November 1964 - October 1965:
Don Draper (Jon Hamm (Unbreakable Kimmie Schmidt (2015-16))) is in bad shape following his divorce from Betty (January Jones (Love Actually (2003))) as the season kicks off, which hurts his professionalism, while Betty lets her frustrations pass onto their children throughout the season, especially pre-puberty-stage Sally.
Things don't go according to plan at brave Joan's (Christina Hendricks (The Neon Demon (2016))) place: Her attractive man, whom she felt compelled to marry after his sexual attack on her, now wants to go into active duty in Vietnam as a military doctor. Don goes from New York to California, where he can't get himself to tell his dear ex-wife that she is dying of cancer.
Peggy (Elisabeth Moss (Get Him to the Greek (2010))) relishes her freedom in the city and goes out with a lesbian from Greenwich Village, while Pete (Vincent Kartheiser (Red Knot (2014))) becomes a father. Senior partner in the ad company now called Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce, Roger Sterling (John Slattery (Ted 2 (2015))) is blatantly racist towards Japanese visitors from Honda, while Betty punishes Sally (astonishingly played by young Kiernan Shipka (Fan Girl (2015))) for masturbating by sending her to therapy, the sexual angst of the 1960s thus conveyed powerfully.
Roger remembers to his memoir, which he works during this season, how Don was introduced to the company years earlier as a pushy, glowing, dishonest fur salesman. Peggy fascinates her colleagues with her sexual broad-mindedness but loses her conformist boyfriend, because she prioritizes work. The drinking becomes more of an oppressive through-line in season 4: 'Duck' (Joel Murray (Lamb (2015))) free-falls in drink, tries to get Peggy's help, and Roger and Don are stupid and pathetic on their benders. Peggy fires a young guy, who sexually harasses the girls, but Joan disapproves of her decision, testifying to the complexities of the women's lib issue.
Peggy later rejects a radical romance, and Joan gives in to Roger's advances following a street robbery. Don dates the company's sweet focus group lady Dr. Fay. But so much ends badly: Joan's mistake costs her an abortion; Roger loses Lucky Strike, the company's decisive client, and keeps it to himself. Lane's (Jared Price's (The Boxtrolls (2014)) British character grows substantially in depth in the course of the season) father demands him back in London, and the FBI wants to know just who Don Draper really is. The crisis atmosphere builds while Don succumbs to the charms of another secretary... He infuriates everyone with an anti-smoking ad, and the office has to fire a bunch of people in the middle of the bold offensive. Betty fires the family's maid Carla and moves to punish Sally and to attempt to clear her own mind of her past with Don. On a second trip to California with his kids and new secretary girlfriend Megan, Don proposes to her on a whim, which is later met with cynical expectation from the other women of the office.
The season peters out in this hopeful light with Don newly in love. Matthew Weiner's (The Sopranos (2004-07), writer) Mad Men continues to be an outstanding, beautifully crafted and acted, spectacular TV-series, although the season might be a tad less impressive than the preceding one.
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