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<\/p>\nI don’t have time for this, but I wanted to get my bet down on paper so I can bask in the glory — or ignominy — come Sunday night.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
1. Don Draper is a coward. Whenever things don’t go his way, he tries to run away.<\/p>\n
2. This season, he has played tentatively with the idea of making a real, adult commitment to his made-up life, but, even then, he has successfully run away, again and again, from his own redemption.<\/p>\n
3. This most recent episode, “Blowing Smoke,” shows Don actually making a commitment — to the ad agency, to his relationship with Faye and to Peter Campbell.<\/p>\n
4. All of this will fail.<\/p>\n
5. When it does, Don will make the flying exit foretold episode after episode in the opening credits.<\/p>\n
6. This will be the end of the series.<\/p>\n
Tune in to AMC Sunday night to see if I’m right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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