Season one is in the books, and we’re closing it out in style with The Scout’s Honors—our end-of-season recap episode! In this special installment of Blowing Smoke, we look back on the highs, lows, and existential crises of Mad Men’s debut season. We hand out our honorary awards for the season’s biggest pitches, lingering questions, and those unforgettable moments when the Sterling Cooper facade threatened to crack wide open.

We also unveil our personal episode rankings and share our overall impressions of how this first season set the tone, pace, and emotional architecture for everything that follows. Stick around for the very end to hear a preview of our next episode, a special cinematic epilogue to season one before we dive into the second.

Intro theme music composed by Dar Golan.

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