The social and historic touch points of Sunday’s episode included the infancy of the space race, the early struggles of the Civil Rights movement, and airline travel. The mastery of period entertainment is cleverly mixing in signs of those times amidst strong characters and stories. And, again, Mad Men delivers brief powerful commentary on our modern times by showing you the way things were only 40 years ago. No matter who you’re voting for four weeks from today, it should not be lost on anyone the historic Presidential race we are witnessing. While racism and bigotry certainly still exist, it is worth celebrating how far we’ve come.
