10 Times Mad Men Became The Weirdest Drama On Television
This is what happens when you introduce LSD to a period piece.
After eight years, countless drinking binges and innumerable extra-marital trysts, Mad Men has finally come to an end. The '60s have died and given way to unfathomable cynicism and various unwise fashion-related decisions, but no one can say the journey of Don Draper and co. didn't make great television. Mad Men's reputation as a classy period drama, however, belied the fact that it occasionally took unexpected detours into almost supernatural weirdness. It was an existential epic about the obliteration of the '60s dream first and foremost, and showrunner Matthew Weiner's relatively realistic approach - it's all about the business meetings, the petty rivalries and the pitches - left little room for leaping outside the box. But leap the show did, on a few occasions allowing itself to become the most out-there drama on television. It was a heavily symbolic show, for one, but let's not forget it was also brimming with ridiculous comedy moments (remember when Pete's mother fell off the cruise ship? Hysterical) and, later on, some excellently drug-addled hippy freakouts. The occasionally hallucinatory nature of the show meant Mad Men never could truly be pinned down. Here are ten times when Mad Men stopped being that classy drama that the Daily Mail likes and instead went totally weird.