Mad Men – The Phantom

What haunts the people of Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce? Literally speaking it is that last name on the letterhead, the man it signifies, the seat he left empty and the most nefarious fate that found it that way. More so than any of that though it is the phantoms of the past as a whole that most pervades their private thoughts and turmoils of the soul as they step warily into the future. What did they do to get themselves here and what didn’t they when they should’ve? These are some of the questions running through their heads during the episode, but these like so many others are all questions that ultimately go unanswered by a rather ambiguous and seemingly uneventful finale.