A review of tonight's "Mad Men" coming up just as soon as the other couch is full of farts... "Oh, believe me: there's always a hierarchy." -Roger "Mad Men" was so busy dealing with the politics and tragedy of 1968 that season 6 didn't have a lot of time for the pop culture of that year. Perhaps as a make-up, we get "The Monolith," an episode whose name evokes the mysterious black object at the center of "2001: A Space Odyssey," and whose plot involves a fear of man being replaced by computers, much as the Hal-9000 in that film sought to kill off the human astronauts (and also had more personality than either of them). And Lloyd, the computer engineer responsible for installing Sc&P's new technological marvel, even tells Don, "It's been my experience these machines can be a metaphor for whatever's on people's minds." "Mad Men" is often a show that,...
- 5/5/2014
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
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