← Mad Men Mad Men: Running the floor Joan Holloway runs the office and everyone in it knows the building would stop without her; the question the series asks is what that is actually worth in a room where the titles belong to men. 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.
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Open episode checklist ↓ The Essentials · 92 The speed run · 19 Out of the typing pool · 23 The account man · 21 Running the floor · 19 The house in Ossining · 19 The climb · 21 Path details & story map Episode lengths vary. Plan viewing days at your own pace →
Updated September 1, 2026
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🔒 S01E10 Long Weekend Reveal S01E10 details A weekend in the city with her roommate. The first look at her life outside the office, and how carefully the office version is built.
Season 2 3 in the path
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🔒 S02E01 For Those Who Think Young Reveal S02E01 details Where the new copy machine goes, and who decides. The whole floor runs on her and only she seems to know it.
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🔒 S02E05 The New Girl Reveal S02E05 details Hiring Don a secretary, which means deciding what kind of woman survives on this floor.
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🔒 S02E12 The Mountain King Reveal S02E12 details She brings her fiance in to meet everyone. The office reads him faster than she does.
Season 3 3 in the path
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🔒 S03E03 My Old Kentucky Home Reveal S03E03 details A dinner party for her husband's colleagues, hosted to the standard she holds everything to.
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🔒 S03E06 Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency Reveal S03E06 details The English arrive, an accident reorganises the agency, and the news she gets is not the one she was expecting.
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🔒 S03E11 The Gypsy and the Hobo Reveal S03E11 details Plans for a future that depends entirely on somebody else's career.
Season 4 2 in the path
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🔒 S04E03 The Good News Reveal S04E03 details An empty office over a holiday, and an unlikely friendship with the one partner who also has nowhere to be.
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🔒 S04E08 The Summer Man Reveal S04E08 details A copywriter's joke goes too far. How she chooses to handle it and how Peggy chooses to handle it are the whole argument.
Season 5 3 in the path
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🔒 S05E01 A Little Kiss (1) Reveal S05E01 details A surprise party, a houseguest she cannot get rid of, and a marriage she is managing like an account.
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🔒 S05E04 Mystery Date Reveal S05E04 details The decision she makes alone, in a hospital, and tells nobody about.
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🔒 S05E11 The Other Woman Reveal S05E11 details The Jaguar account. What the partners ask of her, what she asks in return, and the fact that she is the only one who negotiates.
Season 6 2 in the path
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🔒 S06E04 To Have and to Hold Reveal S06E04 details A client of her own, brought in without the men, and the trouble that causes upstairs.
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🔒 S06E10 A Tale of Two Cities Reveal S06E10 details Caught off guard in front of the partners, defending an account she is not supposed to have.
Season 7 5 in the path
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🔒 S07E02 A Day's Work Reveal S07E02 details An awkward situation handled the way she handles everything, plus an office move that says exactly what she is worth here.
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🔒 S07E08 Severance Reveal S07E08 details An account problem that turns into a room full of men who will not listen to her.
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🔒 S07E10 The Forecast Reveal S07E10 details A business trip, and the first version of her life that she chose rather than managed.
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🔒 S07E12 Lost Horizon Reveal S07E12 details McCann, and a coworker who makes it immediately clear what the merger means for her.
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🔒 S07E14 Person to Person Reveal S07E14 details The finale. Of everyone in this path she is the one who ends up with exactly what she built.
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