The first season of Mad Men was brilliant. It had an original and interesting premise and setting, great casting and acting, high production values and fantastic period work. But it also had something else—a titillating mystery: Who was Don Draper?
The plot lines were fun and it was a fascinating look at how things might have been in the early ’60s in a Manhattan advertising firm. But what kept the over all plot line together was the slowly revealed back-story about who the main character Don Draper really was and how he got to be a top ad man in the New York with the “perfect” life that was, of course, anything but.
The rave reviews, media attention and awards the first season won were richly deserved. But once we knew who Don was, where would it go from there? The answer, at least in terms of the back-story was pretty obvious to me. I was certain that season two would explore what happened to the real Don Draper and what would happen if someone came looking for him and found his impostor, instead. I was close.
