Sunday’s episode of Mad Men turned nearly every character’s future into one big question mark with the news that McCann-Erickson would be absorbing SC&P — and that not everybody would be coming along for the ride.
But forget about the boardroom scheming and office gossip. For plenty of viewers, “Time & Life” — the 11th episode of the final season — was all about love: specifically, the love between Peggy and Stan that hasn’t exactly blossomed despite fans’ frantic Twitter pleas.
If you found yourself shipping SC&P’s lumbersexual art director and its finicky copy chief, clearly you weren’t alone tonight:
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