Thus far, Matthew Weiner has shown a fondness for marrying each season?s climactic moments with landmark events of the era. At the end of Season 1, Korean War flashbacks show Dick Whitman stealing the identity of Don Draper at the same time America is picking John F. Kennedy over Richard Nixon in the 1960 presidential election. America wants to be Camelot, and Dick Whitman wants desperately to be part of it. At the end of Season 2, the facade of Don and Betty?s storybook marriage has rotted away, their dueling infidelities complicated by news of her pregnancy, all neatly overshadowed by the existential dread of the Cuban Missile Crisis. At the end of Season 3, the dissolution of Sterling Cooper, the exposure of Don?s lies about his identity, and the end of the Drapers? marriage all coincide with JFK?s assassination. (The exception thus far is Season 4, which ended with Don?s surprise engagement to his secretary, Megan. It wasn?t tied to a historical event but rather couched in the bright and sunny promise of Walt Disney?s ?Tomorrowland.?) If Mad Men?s real-time hiatus is carried over into the show?s universe, and if Season 5 covers anywhere near the span of a calendar year, these next 13 episodes would almost have to reach their climax on or about April 4, 1968, the day Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn.
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