MAD MEN: What Happens When You Don’t Strike It Lucky as a Child

Don Draper (Jon Hamm) didn’t strike it lucky as a child. He knows it deep down. But we don’t. Not until much later, in the mostly jocular day-to-day lives of our Mad Men, brilliantly written by Matthew Weiner. No. Don Draper lives with secrets of trauma. Secrets he hides. With alcohol. Women. Sex. Success. But even a carefully constructed lie takes its toll. You can’t really blow smoke over your own eyes…