The Phantom

Name: The Phantom
Genre: Drama
Released: 2012-06-10
Duration: 48 min
Rating: 8.6
Cast: Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, Vincent Kartheiser

Episode aired Jun 10, 2012
TV-14TV-14
48min

S5.E13

As the partners consider expanding the office space, Don begins seeing ghosts and gets a request to advance Megan's acting career. Meanwhile, Peter's affair comes to a disappointing end, and... Read allAs the partners consider expanding the office space, Don begins seeing ghosts and gets a request to advance Megan's acting career. Meanwhile, Peter's affair comes to a disappointing end, and Megan's mom briefly reunites with Roger.As the partners consider expanding the office space, Don begins seeing ghosts and gets a request to advance Megan's acting career. Meanwhile, Peter's affair comes to a disappointing end, and Megan's mom briefly reunites with Roger.

8.6/10

Director
- Matthew Weiner
Writers
- Matthew Weiner
- Jonathan Igla
Stars

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Jon Hamm, Christina Hendricks, Vincent Kartheiser, Robert Morse, and John Slattery in Mad Men (2007)

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Director
- Matthew Weiner
Writers
- Matthew Weiner
- Jonathan Igla
All cast & crew

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Among those who are depressed about their lives are Megan, Pete and Beth. Beyond getting what she believes are obscene phone calls, Megan is feeling that her acting career is going nowhere, especially after being duped by an unscrupulous agency who filmed a screen test for her. She feels she gets little support from her visiting mother, Marie, and Don. She uses a request from her acting friend Emily to what she hopes will be her own advantage, but she will need some help from Don to achieve her end goal, which he may not be willing to provide. Pete is still restless in his life, even more so when he sees Beth again, this time with Howard on the commuter train. He learns from Beth to where she is going which is directly related to her own depression. Her ultimate destination continues the vicious cycle which is her life. She hopes that Pete will be at least a minor sanctuary from that life. Meanwhile, Don, who refuses to see a dentist about a chronic toothache, continually sees visions of his dead brother Adam all around him. Roger has two immediate goals, both which he hopes will involve Marie. Peggy is trying to settle into her new job, which has some challenges. Without letting the staff know, Joan is looking for extra office space for the company especially in light of the company's somewhat flush financial state (ironic considering Lane's need for personal income, despite much of the company's up front investment being from him) and no one wanting the office in which Lane committed suicide. And the partners decide what to do to memorialize Lane, which garners an unexpected reaction from Rebecca. —Huggo

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Genre
- Drama
Certificate
- TV-14
Parents guide
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Trivia
The movie theatre where Don runs into Peggy is showing Casino Royale (1967) - the Ian Fleming 'James Bond' novel that the Broccolis did not have the film rights to and was made into a comedic feature film. This is evident from the distinctive Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass score. Meanwhile, the closing of the episode is accompanied by 'You Only Live Twice' - the theme song to the 5th Bond film - Broccoli produced - of the franchise, also released in 1967. 1967 is widely considered to be the zenith of Bond (and secret agent / spy) 'fever'in popular culture.

Goofs
The "Earthrise" photograph visible on the wall in Pete's office was shot during the Apollo 8 mission, which did not take place until December 1968.

Quotes
Beth Dawes: What's wrong with your friend?
Pete Campbell: He got involved with another man's wife.
Beth Dawes: And that put him in the hospital?
Pete Campbell: From the... complications.
Beth Dawes: Why did he do it?
Pete Campbell: Well, all the rave of reasons, I guess. He needed to let off some steam; he needed adventure; he needed to feel handsome again. He needed to feel that he knew something, that all this aging was worth something because he knew things young people didn't know yet. He probably thought it would be like having a few tall drinks and feeling very very good, and then he would go back to his life and say, "that was nice."
Beth Dawes: But then he got sick?
Pete Campbell: When it went away, he was heartbroken. And then he realized everything he already had was not right either, and that was why it had happened at all, and that his life with his family was some temporary bandage on a permanent wound.

Connections
Featured in The 64th Primetime Emmy Awards (2012)

Soundtracks
A Beautiful Mine
(uncredited)
Written by RJD2
Performed by RJD2
(opening credits)

Top review

10/10

Season Five

After watching five seasons of "Mad Men", it has finally clicked why this show has been such a unique experience for me. My past favorite TV shows (LOST, X-Files, Smallville, 24) pretty much all focused on over-arching plots from episode to episode. "Mad Men" uses a similar strategy...but with characters instead of plot points, By this season, the show has developed such a stable of incredible characters that you can't help but what to see what will happen to them all.

By this point in the show, there are just so many juicy stories going on that it truly takes an entire season to get them all enough screen time! For example:

-The "business stuff" with Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and his work partners like Peggy (Elisabeth Moss), Pete (Vincent Kartheiser), Harry (Rich Sommer), Ken (Aaron Staten), Roger (John Slattery), Bert (Robert Morse), and Lane (Jared Harris).

-Joan Harris (Christina Hendricks) and husband Greg (Sam Page) try to get things straightened out.

-Personal players in Don's life such as new wife Megan (Jessica Pare), old wife Betty (January Jones), and daughter Sally (Kiernan Shipka).

-Even some new blood in the character of Michael Ginsberg (Ben Feldmen) is introduced, while Paul Kinsey (Micheal Gladis) re-surfaces for a brief period.

There are no set plot arcs to this show, but rather it just shows the lives of all those characters and how they interact with each other and the world. Show creator Matthew Weiner has such a deft touch at making them all interesting that by now the "formula" (if one can use such a simple term like that to describe something so complex) is set: In just a 13 episode season, focusing on the characters described above alone is plenty of material!

After a noticeable drop in standards during the second season and the beginning of the third, this show has been hitting on all cylinders since that point. Nothing to dissuade loyal viewers in this season.

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