![]() ![]() It is, indeed a frozen lake, its waters kept as ice by the beating of Lucifer’s wings as he endlessly consumes three other traitors – Brutus, Cassius and Judas – in this ninth circle, this place where Treachery reigns. After all, that is what an “inferno” is.īut in Dante, the lowest level of hell, the place where Lucifer resides, is the very opposite of hot. In the popular mind, Hell is all about heat, fire and burning. As with The Sopranos, the central drama is really that: will Tony/Don break free of what they’ve accepted as fate?Īs this season began, viewers complained that it didn’t seem likely here, and the whole thing was getting just too repetitious, with every season ending with Don teetering on the edge of some kind of epiphany…only to fall again. ![]() He’s coasting at work, making impulsive, unilateral decisions right and left, neglecting his children even more than usual and worst of all, having a really unacceptable number of Growing-Up-In-The-Whorehouse flashbacks.īeing human and hoping for the best, we viewers are hoping for some kind of redemption and turnaround for Don. He’s drinking more heavily, he’s being even more than a pig than usual, playing controlling mind games with his lover and then turning around and being angry with his wife for her on-camera love scenes. Don, as we learn at the end of the episode, is indeed cheating again – and she’s the one who gifted him with the Dante. “mid-life” “hell” “death” straight ahead.Īnd so it is. But – what’s he reading? Ominously, it’s Inferno. The last we’d seen of Don at the end of Season 5, he sat in a bar, not answering the question posed by one more lovely lady: Are you alone?Īs season 6 begins, he’s on a Hawaiian beach that questions seemingly answered, since wife Megan is with him and then seem content. Today, I just want to toy with Don Draper’s trajectory through 1968. …I wanted to name this post NOT GREAT, BOB! because it makes me laugh every time I think about it, but I’m going to exercise restraint and save Pete Campbell for later. ![]()
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