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Don attempts to return to his advertising agency after being put on indefinite leave following a meltdown in the middle of a client meeting. Eventually, his status at the firm becomes the focus of a bitter power struggle between Roger and Jim, both of whom want to take Sterling Cooper & Partners in radically different directions. The highly anticipated series conclusion will, for the last time, follow the complex lives of Don, Peggy, Roger, Joan, Betty and Pete as their stories come to an end. It's the End of an Era.
[Prior] episodes splintered the show's stalwart characters off into so many discrete subplots that they rarely shared screen time with one another. This episode, directed by Lane Pryce himself - Jared Harris - remedied that.
It was part of the genius of the episode that, just as their uncertain fate with McCann hovered like a dark cloud over everyone, the key characters all had moments where they connected with each other, with respect and affection.
This week Mad Men finally gave the people what they want: group scenes with the major principals. All the sentimental first-season pairings had scenes: Peggy and Pete, Joan and Roger, Don and a drink.
We're... in one of the rare moments where Mad Men has a legitimate ticking clock, and the wait for next week actually has an air of what happens next? to it.
After a meandering start to the half-season, Mad Men finally kicked into a higher gear with "Time & Life," finding new energy with a story that was about the firm, rather than Don's depressing love life.