- Summary: After a long 17-month hiatus, Mad Men return for its fifth season.
- Genre(s): Drama
- Show Type: Returning Series
- Season 5 premiere date: Mar 25, 2012
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 10:00 PM
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 24
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Mixed: 0 out of 24
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Negative: 0 out of 24
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100After a dark and often depressing season four, it's refreshing to start things off on a more jovial, lighter note. That's not to say the premiere is devoid of angst, disappointment and drama. It's just buoyed by an unusually high amount of humor.
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100That's Mad Men in a woozy nutshell: intoxicating, sophisticated, demanding, uncompromising and always seductively satisfying. Even after a stupefying 17-month absence that somehow hasn't dampened our ardor for this one-of-a-kind series.
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100The show still tends to go suddenly flat--it's hard to tell whether the party is supposed to be dead or it's just incompetently staged--but Hamm is always superb as Don. [2 Apr 2012, p.37]
Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 14
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Mixed: 0 out of 14
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Negative: 4 out of 14
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