Mad Men: The house in Ossining

The other half of the show, in the suburbs, where almost nothing happens on purpose. Betty Draper's thread is the hardest one to like and the one the series is most quietly serious about. A thread through an ensemble show, not a way to watch Mad Men - the series cross-cuts less than most, which is why this works at all, but you will be missing everything happening in the other offices. If this is your first time, take The Essentials instead.

For following Betty, or rewatching the show for her.

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Season 15 in the path

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🔒S01E02Ladies Room

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Her hands will not stop shaking and the doctor talks to her husband about it. The series' first statement of her whole problem.

🔒S01E03Marriage of Figaro

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A birthday party in the backyard, a neighbourhood that runs on being watched, and a divorcee invited into it.

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🔒S01E09Shoot

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An agency wants to make her a model again. What that offer is actually for, and who it is aimed at.

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🔒S01E11Indian Summer

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A washing machine, an afternoon alone, and the show's bluntest scene about a woman with nothing to do.

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🔒S01E13The Wheel

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She uncovers something. The last ten minutes recast the whole marriage and the whole season.

Season 24 in the path

🔒S02E01For Those Who Think Young

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A former roommate with a career, and an afternoon that makes the house feel smaller.

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🔒S02E09Six Month Leave

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A friendship, a riding club, and a manoeuvre that shows how she uses the few tools she has.

🔒S02E10The Inheritance

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Her father is failing and the family house has to be dealt with. Where she comes from, finally on screen.

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🔒S02E13Meditations in an Emergency

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News that changes the terms of everything, delivered in a week when the world may not continue.

Season 35 in the path

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🔒S03E02Love Among the Ruins

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Her father moves in, and the past she has been performing away arrives in the kitchen.

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🔒S03E05The Fog

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A hospital, a birth, and an anaesthetised night that is the most honest the show ever lets her be.

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🔒S03E07Seven Twenty Three

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Local politics, a fund-raising committee, and a man from the governor's office.

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🔒S03E11The Gypsy and the Hobo

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The drawer. The one conversation the marriage was built to avoid, finally had.

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🔒S03E13Shut the Door. Have a Seat.

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Reno, advice, and a decision she makes for herself in the same weekend everyone else remakes the agency.

Season 41 in the path

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🔒S04E10Hands and Knees

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A visitor at the Francis house who is not there for her, and a reminder that the old life is not finished with her.

Season 61 in the path

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🔒S06E02The Doorway (2)

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A houseguest, a trip into the city, and a version of herself she tries on for a few days.

Season 73 in the path

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🔒S07E03Field Trip

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Lunch with a friend, and an argument about what a woman her age is supposed to be doing.

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🔒S07E13The Milk and Honey Route

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A stairwell, an X-ray, and news that reorders everything left in the series. Her best hour, and it is the second to last.

🔒S07E14Person to Person

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The finale, and a letter that is the most clear-eyed thing the character ever does.

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