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Mad Men
The Monolith
Directed by
Scott Hornbacher
TV-14
S7 • E4
May 4, 2014
48m
8.5
8.0
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Don returns to work, but quickly falls off the wagon after learning that he's been assigned to Peggy. Meanwhile, Roger and his ex-wife go to a commune to rescue their daughter, who has abandoned her child.
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Cast of The Monolith
Jon Hamm
Don Draper
Elisabeth Moss
Peggy Olson
Vincent Kartheiser
Pete Campbell
January Jones
Betty Draper
Christina Hendricks
Joan Holloway
Aaron Staton
Ken Cosgrove
Rich Sommer
Harry Crane
Kiernan Shipka
Sally Draper
Kevin Rahm
Ted Chaough
Christopher Stanley
Henry Francis
Mason Cotton
Bobby Draper
John Slattery
Roger Sterling
Jessica Paré
Megan Draper
Jay R. Ferguson
Stan Rizzo
Ben Feldman
Michael Ginsberg
Robert Morse
Bertram Cooper
Talia Balsam
Mona Sterling
Elizabeth Rice
Margaret Sterling
Joel Murray
Fred Rumsen
Beth Hall
Caroline
Mad Men - S7 • E4 Ratings & Reviews
Observer
Molly Mulshine
"Boring" is a strong word, so let's just say last night's Mad Men was no fun. This entire season has been devoid of joy.
TV.com
MaryAnn Sleasman
The world that Mad Men exists in is much more complicated than the one it started in, but those complications are only as good and as bad as the individuals in question make them.
Zap2it.com
Kiley Thompson
Someone throws a pity-party tantrum while someone else goes full-on hippie, and creative gets moved out in favor of the all-mighty ginormous computer in "The Monolith."
Tampa Bay Times
Michelle Stark
All of the workplace stuff really, well, worked. I loved how it evoked the mundane feeling of working in an office, and having to deal with all that entails.
TheWrap
Tim Molloy
Sunday's "Mad Men" found Don Draper back where he started: writing tag lines, this time under the supervision of his former secretary. The show's exit music nicely captured how much he's spinning in circles.
Washington Post
Rachel Lubitz
After last week's plotline-packed episode that thankfully had the return of Betty but rather mortifyingly brought Don back to Sterling Cooper & Partners, Mad Men has decided to have a little bit of fun.
HitFix
Alan Sepinwall
Both Elisabeth Moss and Jon Hamm are wonderful at playing both confusion and indignation, and this role reversal provides plenty of opportunity for both.
The Young Folks
Aaron Neuwirth
Mad Men continues to be a show that moves at its own pace and is confident in throwing a character like Roger literally out in the wilderness and finding a way for that to connect with the rest of the show.
Screen Rant
Kevin Yeoman
As per usual Mad Men is at its best when focusing on things like mortality, modernity, and the endless pursuit of meaning, and "The Monolith" has plenty to feast on.
TV Fanatic
Carissa Pavlica
[It] doesn't tell fast-paced stories - and that's a major problem with the final season being split into two parts. I can't imagine a great cliffhanger moment that will leave us breathless in anticipation for the final seven installments [next year].
indieWire
Ben Travers
Unlike most of what came before on Mad Men, most of this episode wasn't made to be an enjoyable effort to decode -- it was laid out as directly, if not more so, as any episode yet to air. But did it have to feel so lifeless?
Entertainment Weekly
Jeff Labrecque
"Do the work, Don." Get busy living, or get busy dying, Freddie seems to be saying. Damn right.
Denver Post
Joanne Ostrow
What goes around comes around, on a carousel, no less.
The Atlantic
Ashley Fetters
This episode sent some tantalizingly strong signals to people (like, admittedly, me) who believe this series has been headed all along toward a role reversal between Peggy and Don.
Chicago Sun-Times
Lori Rackl
If there were an Emmy for best glares, Jon Hamm would finally get that elusive gold statuette for "The Monolith."
New York Daily News
David Hinckley
An unsettling episode for viewers. More unsettling for Don, Roger and Peggy, all of whom slammed into unpleasant truths they'd have preferred to avoid. The last scene felt like the writers saying, "We gotta give 'em SOMETHING that's a little hopeful."
New York Times
Logan Hill
Leaving so little room for human error, this episode seemed like it was programmed to fail.
AV Club
Emily VanDerWerff
"The Monolith" struck me as a bit clunky in places, though I appreciated the way the show called itself out for this, but it had a circularity I found oddly pleasing all the same.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
This past Mad Men was Don's entire arc so far, crammed into one episode. Hitting bottom, then starting over.
NPR
Eric Deggans
Don's brief relapse into the bottle was frightening. But the real story meat here comes from Roger, forced to realize his daughter is made in his image when she leaves her family to live on a commune... and it isn't pretty.
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