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Slow-burn romances on TV keep us glued to the screen, building tension through lingering glances, near-misses, and heartfelt moments that make the payoff unforgettable. These couples take their time, earning our investment with chemistry and depth that explode when they finally connect.

We’ve ranked 10 of the most rewarding slow-burn romances in TV history, from captivating to iconic, based on their emotional buildup and satisfying resolution. Here’s why these love stories are worth the wait.

10. The X-Files (1993-2018) – Mulder and Scully Fox

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully’s partnership starts as a clash of belief and skepticism while hunting paranormal cases. Their trust grows over years, with subtle glances and quiet support fueling a simmering bond.

The Season 7 kiss (2000) feels earned after endless teases. We’re hooked by their understated, cosmic chemistry.

9. Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013-2021) – Jake and Amy Fox / NBC

Jake Peralta’s goofy detective antics meet Amy Santiago’s by-the-book drive,...

Hollywood star Jon Hamm got brutally honest when asked about his Mad Men character, Don Draper, and it wasn’t the reflection that many may have expected. Hamm portrayed the role of the charismatic yet deeply troubled creative director at the Manhattan advertising firm, Sterling Cooper, in the AMC series.

While the series finale hinted at a more soothing and redemptive conclusion for Draper after a seven-season run, the actor doesn’t seem to believe things turned out well for him, as he suggested when asked where Don Draper might be years after the show’s conclusion.

Mad Men star Jon Hamm delivered a grim verdict on Don Draper’s fate

Playing the role of Don Draper in Mad Men, the acclaimed AMC series with a 94% critic score, Jon Hamm became acutely aware of what the character was truly capable of, as he confidently asserted in a previous appearance on The Rich Eisen Show.

Can you believe it’s been nearly a decade since Don Draper meditated his way into creating the most legendary Coke ad in TV history? Mad Men wrapped up in 2015, but its cast? Still everywhere, some in your favorite shows, others totally off the radar. From high-fashion red carpets to indie film sets to unexpected career pivots, this crew didn’t just fade into the smoke-filled offices of Sterling Cooper.

Jon Hamm went full Hollywood heartthrob, Elisabeth Moss kept dominating TV like a boss, and January Jones, well, she’s still keeping us guessing on Instagram. The drama might’ve ended, but we’re still obsessed with where everyone ended up. If you ever wondered what Peggy, Roger, or even little Sally Draper are doing in 2025, you’re in the right place. Warning, this may spark a sudden urge to rewatch all seven seasons. Martini not included.

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Jon Hamm will return to host Saturday Night Live for the fourth time this weekend. And while there’s no Four-Timers Club, maybe we’ll get another sketch about the joy of eating cured meats while you’re taking a dump?

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Hamm first appeared on the show way back in 2008. In addition to “Jon Hamm’s John Ham,” the Halloween episode also found the actor impersonating James Mason for a Vincent Price-themed sketch, playing the unfortunately-named Butts City Council candidate Pat Finger, and interrogating a trick-or-treater who may or may not be a registered sex offender.

But coming just one year after Mad Men premiered, there were obviously a number of sketches dedicated to the award-winning AMC drama. Like “Don Draper’s Guide to Picking Up Women,” which featured helpful tips such as “look fantastic in a suit,” “lie to everyone about everything” and “drink and smoke constantly.

While improvisation is often welcomed by filmmakers as a way for actors to tweak dialogue and add their own touch, Matthew Weiner, creator of the Emmy-winning series Mad Men had a firm rule for his show, no improvisation.

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John Slattery, who played the role of Roger Sterling in the period drama, reflected on the showrunner’s unbreakable rule on the set, saying that Weiner was committed to preserving his meticulously crafted show exactly as written.

John Slattery reflected on the Mad Men creator’s preference of avoiding any improvisations

John Slattery took on the role of Roger Sterling in the Emmy-winning drama Mad Men, one of the two senior partners at Sterling Cooper and a mentor to the series’ protagonist, Don Draper, throughout its seven-season run.

John Slattery in Mad Men | Credit: AMC

And during an interview with The Guardian, the actor revealed how the show creator Matthew Weiner,...

Mad Men left it ambiguous whether Roger Sterling really hired Don Draper. Mad Men chronicled the saga of Don Draper, the handsome and slick ad man who was Creative Director of Sterling Cooper and, later, Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. One of the fundamental aspects of Don is that he was a man of many secrets. After all, "Don Draper" was a fiction; Don's true identity is Dick Whitman, and he swapped identities with the late Lieutenant Don Draper during the Korean War.

Just as Don Draper lied to his many mistresses, his ex-wife, Betty, and nearly everyone in his life, it's quite possible Don also deceived Roger Sterling to get hired at Sterling Cooper. Mad Men season 4, episode 6, "Waldorf Stories," featured flashbacks revealing how Don met Roger. Don was working at Heller's Luxury Furs in 1953 when Roger came in to buy a present for his mistress, Joan Holloway. Don was...

When it comes to the feminist themes of "Mad Men," it's typically Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) at the front of the conversation. She's on a clear upward journey from the moment she shows up in the pilot, and spends the show slowly but surely rising through the ranks of a male-dominated corporate environment. Then there's Betty (January Jones) as Peggy's polar opposite, a woman who spends the series trapped in an unfulfilling housewife role, even though she's not stupid and she speaks Italian; she totally could've enjoyed that career in psychology if she'd been born a little later.

In the middle is Joan. She's introduced as an extension of the mean girl trope, and characterized as sort of vain and shallow. She casually espouses all the ideals about gender roles that the show itself clearly wants to criticize. She comes from a time where looks really are almost all that matters for a woman,...

Don Draper (Jon Hamm) had 19 mistresses throughout Mad Men's seven seasons, not counting his three wives, making all of Don Draper's mistresses difficult to keep up with. Mad Men was one of AMC's prestige series that followed the lives and careers of Madison Avenue advertising executives throughout the 1960s. While the other ad men of Sterling Cooper also carried on extra-marital affairs, Donald F. Draper had the most by far. While Draper is married to Betty Hofstadt (January Jones), the character went on to have an unrivaled infidelity streak.

Despite having two kids with Betty, Don cheated on her numerous times as his advertising career took off. In Mad Men season 3, Betty, who long suspected Don's infidelities, learned that he's really Dick Whitman. Betty divorced Don, who then married his secretary, Megan Calvet (Jessica Pare) between seasons 4 and 5. He couldn't stay faithful to Megan either, and despite attempts...

Mad Men star John Slattery joins USA's The Rainmaker as a powerful courtroom lion, Leo F. Drummond. The Rainmaker revival is part of the USA Network's refocus on scripted TV shows. Slattery's casting as Leo adds prestige to The Rainmaker, setting high expectations.

The Rainmaker, the upcoming adaptation of John Grisham's popular novel, has cast one of the author's iconic characters. Previously adapted into a 1997 film, which was directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starred Matt Damon, The Rainmaker is being brought back as a television series at the USA Network, as the channel looks to reinvest in scripted programming.

Deadline confirms that John Slattery has joined The Rainmaker in a series regular role, playing Leo F. Drummond. Described as a legendary lion of the courtroom and senior partner at Tinley Britt, Drummond is the face of the powerful firm that Rudy Baylor is up against. Slattery, who...

Jon Hamm played Sterling Cooper’s charismatic adman Don Draper for seven seasons of AMC’s Mad Men. One of the most iconic characters in TV history, Don Draper was the epitome of male beauty. However, AMC Network was initially hesitant to cast Hamm in the role as they found him not sexy enough for the role.

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Hamm recalled auditioning for the role multiple times before he could land the role. However, the Mad Men role propelled Hamm into one of the leading stars in Hollywood. He was recently seen in Jennifer Aniston’s critically acclaimed series, The Morning Show.

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Jon Hamm appeared alongside Charlize Theron and Steve Coogan in one episode of The Graham Norton Show. Hamm opened up about...

Editor’s Note: This review was originally published during SXSW 2024. Strand Releasing and Ld Entertainment release “High Tide” in select theaters October 18.

The main draw on the surface of writer-director Marco Calvani’s lovely if overly dramatic feature debut is the jaw-dislocating physical beauty of its star. That might sound crass, but “High Tide” is a movie that dares you not to be obsessed with — and attracted to — its leading man. Actor Marco Pigossi, Calvani’s real-life partners, enters the first frame as if sculpted out of marble, or butter even, stripping down to nothing and rushing into the sea off a desolate nude beach along Provincetown, Massachusetts, in a spin of anguish.

The cold open is a bookend “High Tide” will return to at its climax. It’s also a chilly plunge into a baptismal, hoped-for catharsis for Lourenço (Pigossi), a Brazilian immigrant with an expiring tourist visa reeling...

Jon Hamm believes that a reboot of Mad Men is unnecessary due to the satisfying ending of the show. Continuing the Mad Men story through a reboot would risk undermining the perfect conclusion of the series. The ambiguous ending of Mad Men, particularly for Don Draper, adds to the perfection of the show and doesn't require further exploration.

Though it has been eight years since Mad Men came to an end, actor Jon Hamm does not think a reboot is necessary, and his reasoning behind this actually makes a lot of sense. In 2007, the workplace period drama Mad Men first premiered on AMC and had a successful run for seven seasons. The show followed Don Draper, a suave and confident ad-man in the 1960s who is hiding a variety of dark secrets. Though Hollywood is always in the market for reboots these days, Mad Men's lead actor, Jon Hamm,...

Lane Pryce's death in Mad Men was foreshadowed in the show's fifth season, when he made a risky decision to forge Don Draper's signature on a check. Lane's suicide was driven by humiliation and a sense of betrayal after his embezzlement was discovered by Bert Cooper. His decision to take his own life was a tragic and shocking moment in the series. Actor Jared Harris, who played Lane Pryce, was sad to leave the show but appreciated the impactful storyline given to his character. The portrayal of Lane's death was seen as an act of revenge and a passive-aggressive message to his former colleagues.

The Lane Pryce death in Mad Men was one of the show's saddest moments, but it was subtly foreshadowed at the beginning of season 5. Lane was introduced in Mad Men season 3 as Sterling Cooper's new financial chief when the Madison Avenue advertising agency was bought by the British film,...

IGN, a popular website for video game and entertainment media, has ranked the top 10 TV shows of all time based on various criteria such as quality, influence, popularity, and legacy. Here are their picks for the best TV shows ever made:

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Parks and Recreation is a comedy series that follows the lives of the employees of the Parks and Recreation department of Pawnee, a fictional town in Indiana. The show features a hilarious ensemble cast led by Amy Poehler as Leslie Knope, an optimistic and ambitious bureaucrat who loves her job and her town. The show is known for its witty dialogue, absurd situations, heartfelt moments, and memorable characters such as Ron Swanson, Tom Haverford, April Ludgate, Andy Dwyer, and Ben Wyatt. Parks and Recreation ran for seven seasons from 2009 to 2015 and received critical acclaim and several awards.

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Mad Men is a critically acclaimed drama series that takes viewers on a captivating journey through the bustling world of 1960s New York City. At its heart is the enigmatic Don Draper (Jon Hamm), the creative director of a prestigious advertising agency, Sterling Cooper. During its entire broadcast, the series has produced numerous exceptional episodes that will undoubtedly have a lasting influence on the realm of television.

Jon Hamm opened up about how he almost landed the lead role in the movie Gone Girl, which ultimately went to Ben Affleck.

Hamm appeared on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen opposite his Mad Men co-star John Slattery and fielded some questions from fans. Hamm confirmed he couldn’t take on the lead role in Gone Girl due to his commitments to the hit AMC series Mad Men. "I was down to the very end of that, it was meant to me but we had to film the continuing adventures of Mr. Draper.” He added that the main character in the 2014 movie is from St. Louis and joked that "poor Ben, a Boston guy had to wear a Cardinal hat, he's not very happy about it," in reference to Affleck's support of the Boston Red Sox baseball team and their rivalry with the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Apple TV+'s latest series, Hello Tomorrow!, is highly reminiscent of Mad Men but has a retro-futuristic twist. As the show opens, audiences are introduced to Jack Billings (Billy Crudup), a slick, fast-talking, dark-haired man in a suit. The comparisons can instantly be drawn to Don Draper as Billings lays down a compelling and personal sales pitch in a '50s-themed diner. The opening episodes follow Billings and his fellow sales associates who attempt to sell timeshares for properties on the Moon. Audiences are introduced to the cast of characters, who each have their own motivations and secrets.

Mad Men, which ended in 2015, is considered one of the greatest television series ever made, and Don Draper is one of TV's most fascinating characters. The show ran for seven seasons, taking home 16 Emmys on 116 Nominations. Mad Men, which draws inspiration from The Sopranos has been part of the very successful TV...

It’s no secret that Jon Hamm has been blessed with good lucks, but one of his co-stars on “Mad Men” reveals that Hamm’s handsomeness sometimes became a distraction on the set.

John Slattery, who played Sterling Cooper senior partner Roger Sterling in the series, tells The Independent that he’d initially auditioned for Hamm’s role, Don Draper, before being asked to read for Roger instead.

“They said, ‘Here’s the thing – we have this guy’,” recalled Slattery, admitting he was initially irked that he didn’t get the role.

Read More: Jon Hamm Gave Up 60 Percent Of His Salary To Make ‘Confess, Fletch’ Happen

“[Hamm] claims I was in a bad mood the whole time we shot the first episode because of this, but I don’t think that’s true. Eventually I saw him, and I was like… ‘Oh — they sure do have that guy,'” he added.

"Mad Men" is a deeply philosophical, introspective show that focuses on characters who all deal with some sort of isolation or loneliness. For Betty, it's the isolation of being a '60s housewife. For Don, it's the loneliness of nobody around him knowing who he truly is. For Peggy, it's being one of the only women in a male-dominated field rampant with sexism. With work-focused characters struggling so much just to not feel alone in the world, the relationships between the employees of Sterling Cooper are some of the strongest points on the show.

One relationship that sits at the very heart of the show is that between Don and Peggy, played by Jon Hamm and Elisabeth Moss respectively. What begins as a simple employer/employee relationship evolves into that of a surprisingly close mentor/mentee. Don is one of the first men in their workplace to believe in Peggy's...

Robert Morse, who brought a playful, eccentric sensibility to AMC’s “Mad Men” as the namesake head honcho of fictional ad agency Sterling Cooper, has died. He was 90.

Morse was a two-time Tony Award winner, beginning with best actor in a comedy for the 1961 production of “How to Succeed at Business Without Really Trying.” He won again in 1990 for playing Truman Capote in the play “Tru,” this time for best actor featured in a play, making him one of only four actors to win both honors.

He also won an Emmy for a live TV performance of “Tru” a few years later.

But it was his turn as Bert Cooper, head of ad agency Sterling Cooper on AMC’s “Mad Men,” that modern audiences will remember best.

Morse played Cooper as a benevolent, eccentric leader who loved exotic artwork and going barefoot, insisting on both a tight ship and a light mood.

Robert Morse, the impish actor and singer who found early fame and success as the Tony Award-winning star of Broadway’s How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and enjoyed a late-career second act as an eccentric elder statesman of advertising in AMC’s Mad Men, died yesterday. He was 90.

His death was confirmed by son Charlie to Los Angeles’ ABC affiliate Wednesday night, and was announced on Twitter this morning by Larry Karaszewski, a writer, producer and VP on the board of governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

“My good pal Bobby Morse has passed away at age 90,” Karaszewski wrote. “A huge talent and a beautiful spirit. Sending love to his son Charlie & daughter Allyn. Had so much fun hanging with Bobby over the years – filming People v Oj & hosting so many screenings.”

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Robert Morse, who translated Broadway stardom into a film career in the 1960s, then re-emerged decades later as one of the stars of “Mad Men,” has died. He was 90.

Writer-producer Larry Karaszewski, who serves as a VP on the board of governors for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, tweeted news of Morse’s death on Thursday.

“My good pal Bobby Morse has passed away at age 90,” he wrote. “A huge talent and a beautiful spirit. Sending love to his son Charlie & daughter Allyn. Had so much fun hanging with Bobby over the years – filming People v Oj & hosting so many screenings.”

Morse was Emmy nominated five times for playing the sage Bertram Cooper, the senior partner at the advertising firm that was the focus of AMC’s prestigious series “Mad Men,” from 2007 to 2015. In 2010, he shared the SAG Award that “Mad Men” won for outstanding performance by...

In the heady moments of celebration after England’s victory over Denmark in this year’s Euros semi-final, the sight of team manager Gareth Southgate prompted ITV pundit Gary Neville to comment: “The standard of leaders in this country the past couple of years has been poor. Looking at that man, he’s everything a leader should be: respectful, humble, he tells the truth.”

The former Man U right-back’s words, directed at the political rulers of a country riven by Brexit, tap into a modern craving for decency. Fed a diet of self-serving narcissism from our public figures, we hunger for more wholesome fare: moral character, humility, honesty, kindness. In the year of horrors that was 2020, that appetite was temporarily sated on TV by fictional football manager Ted Lasso.

Played in the Apple TV series by Jason Sudeikis, Ted’s thoroughgoing decency won everyone over to The Lasso Way.

Drinking alcohol is a major part of Mad Men. Whether it's in the office before a meeting, wining and dining with potential clients, or a more traditional after-work event, the characters from Sterling Cooper are consistently knocking back a whiskey or other spirits. While they've all got a high tolerance for alcohol, sometimes it can go a little too far.

Related: Mad Men: The Main Characters' Most Iconic Looks

Whether it's Roger vomiting everywhere or Freddy Rumsen peeing in his pants, sometimes alcohol ends up getting the best of these characters. However, the drinking scenes really do loosen up a lot of the characters, and that leads to some brilliant, and equally, some forgettable scenes throughout the show after work.

The "mad" in Mad Men might stand for Madison Avenue but the characters in the AMC series are indeed crazy. A boss who drinks every hour and rarely sits in his office? Cool! A top ad executive who stole a dead soldier's identity? That would be a major scandal in the real world but in this world, he is a playboy hero.

Related: Mad Men: 10 Funniest Work & Office Memes That'll Make Fans Laugh & Sob

Given how interesting these characters are, it's hard not to imagine their odds of survival during the annual Hunger Games at Panem. The Sterling Cooper advertising agency will have plenty of tributes to offer during the "Reaping" process. Some of the family members of these advertising executives will be great (or terrible) candidates too.

The Madison Avenue staff of Sterling Cooper (and the family members they introduced us to) were quite the mixed bag of personalities from varied backgrounds, making Mad Men a surprise-a-minute to watch when they all interacted.

Related: Mad Men: 10 Funniest Work & Office Memes That'll Make Fans Laugh & Sob

As much as fans often like being able to tell the good guys from the bad guys, this award-winning series was a heightened version of the reality of office life (spilling over into the characters' personal lives) where people are human. They acted in earnest in one situation, and then turned around and made a choice that caused upheaval from which none involved would ever recover. During the decade that was chronicled in the show (1960-1970), those characters that fans got to know over 92 episodes showed the best and worst of themselves, and fans loved them anyway.

It’s been a staying-in kind of year. That New Year’s Resolution you made to travel more? It’s gained 20 pounds, started cutting its own hair and is now in a jigsaw club with your neighbour Ken. The only marathon you’ve completed in 2020 is a Battlestar Galactica rewatch. The only mountain you’ve climbed is the metaphorical one it takes to shower daily. That beach trip you’d planned? It went okay actually. You made some bells by selling coconuts to Nook’s Cranny and dug up a bunch of Manila Clams with a flimsy shovel.

For obvious reasons, escape is on our minds this year more than most. So we started thinking, if you had your wishing socks on, where in the collected imaginations of everyone who’s ever dreamt up a film, TV show, game or book, would you spend the holidays? On the holodeck of...

The Neighborhood is keeping it in the family.

The CBS comedy has cast Beth Behrs‘ real-life husband Michael Gladis (Mad Men) in an upcoming episode, TVLine has learned exclusively.

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Gladis is set to play Calvin’s “personable and dryly funny” physician, Dr. Fisher. After Dave learns that Calvin hasn’t seen a doctor in nearly a decade,...

While Mad Men is often heralded as one of those "great TV dramas," it's also very, very funny. Most of the humor is derived from Roger Sterling, the namesake of Sterling Cooper (and later Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce). Roger is always quick with a witty retort, a scathing—but often hilarious—personal attack, or a snarky bit of condescension or sarcasm. In short, he doesn't tend to take things seriously, and it shows in his public demeanor.

Related: Mad Men: The 10 Most Emotional Scenes, Ranked

But, most of that is for show. Inside, Roger is a horribly pained and borderline tragic figure filled with sympathetic issues.

Matthew Weiner was a novice showrunner when the “Mad Men” pilot was being shot with the legendary New York production designer Bob Shaw. When AMC picked up the pilot and production moved to Los Angeles, Weiner panicked: How was another production designer going to retroactively re-establish the 1961 Madison Avenue advertising world, which Shaw had crafted from real locations, in Los Angeles on a basic cable budget? Shaw gave Weiner a name: Dan Bishop. “[It was] the first time I saw everybody in the office,” recalled Weiner upon visiting Bishop’s fully dressed Sterling Cooper set. “I can’t explain it, to have this world brought to life and it exceeds your imagination.” Weiner knows how rare it is to have something exist perfectly on the screen of your imagination and for somehow it to become richer, more dynamic and meaningful in reality, but on “Mad Men,” it was an experience that became common.

Despite being off the air for half a decade, AMC’s classic period drama Mad Men has found itself in the middle of quite a busy week.

On July 1, Lionsgate, the production company behind Mad Men, cut deals with Amazon and AMC (the show’s original network) for streaming and re-run rights to the series. All 92 episodes of the show will be available to stream on Amazon Prime’s IMDb TV channel on July 15. Amazon Prime also received international rights to the show and will make it available to stream around the world soon. Meanwhile, AMC’s portion of the deal will begin in the fall and will mean that the network will be able to re-air episodes and also host them online for streaming video on demand purposes.

Additionally Starzplay will host the series in Europe, Latin America and Japan beginning Oct. 1.

Of course, Mad Men re-enters the streaming...

When Peggy Olson first started her career at Sterling Cooper, the fledgling advertising superstar was hired as Don Draper’s secretary, a gig that Joan Holloway wryly deemed “something between a mother and a waitress.” Of course, the beloved AMC series wasn’t far off — not about that, and not about a lot of things — but it’s still striking when a clip of this interaction pops up early in Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s “9to5: The Story of a Movement.” Following the rise of a group of female office workers who began to organize in the early ’70s, the filmmakers’ followup to their Oscar-winning “American Factory” handily lays out the specific conditions that led to this essential, if little-known chapter of American history. For many, it was being treated like Peggy: an “office wife,” an invisible “girl,” an underestimated force to be reckoned with.

Bognar and Reichert...

When Peggy Olson first started her career at Sterling Cooper, the fledgling advertising superstar was hired as Don Draper’s secretary, a gig that Joan Holloway wryly deemed “something between a mother and a waitress.” Of course, the beloved AMC series wasn’t far off — not about that, and not about a lot of things — but it’s still striking when a clip of this interaction pops up early in Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert’s “9to5: The Story of a Movement.” Following the rise of a group of female office workers who began to organize in the early ’70s, the filmmakers’ followup to their Oscar-winning “American Factory” handily lays out the specific conditions that led to this essential, if little-known chapter of American history. For many, it was being treated like Peggy: an “office wife,” an invisible “girl,” an underestimated force to be reckoned with.

Bognar and Reichert...

Megan Draper (née Calvet), played by Jessica Paré, is one of the more polarizing characters in Mad Men. Introduced halfway through the show's run, the actress from Montreal becomes a central figure in Don Draper's story as his second wife. Unfortunately, she does so at the expense of the other women in Don's life. His ex-wife, Betty, is sidelined for much of the latter half of the show; he abruptly breaks up with his girlfriend, Faye, over the phone, and the hard work of his colleagues, Joan and Peggy, was once again overshadowed by their boss's sudden marriage.

Related: Mad Men: The Best Dressed Characters At Sterling Cooper, Ranked

Megan also represented a changing of the guard, a modernization of the world as the show entered the late 1960s. Nowhere is this more evident than in her clothes, the many hidden details of which may surprise you.

Betty Draper from Mad Men is so much more than a 1950s housewife. She is also a fashion icon that stands out in an incredibly fashionable TV show. Seriously. If there is any TV character who deserves the award for the greatest sense of style, January Jones's complex character on the AMC series takes the crown without a doubt.

Related: Mad Men: The Best Dressed Characters At Sterling Cooper, Ranked

Mad Men is a brilliant TV show with excellent plot lines and unforgettable characters, yet sometimes we are totally distracted by all of the drama that's going on because we're too busy focusing on the breathtaking costumes the show boasts. What are Betty Draper's best outfits on the show? Which were just "meh"? Read on to find out!

AMC period drama Mad Men (2007-2015) received critical acclaim for its innovative storytelling and immersive portrayal of 1960s America. A large part of the show's success was the beautiful and historically accurate costumes, courtesy of designer Janie Bryant.

Related: Mad Men: 10 Hidden Details About The Ad Agency You Never Noticed

Bryant used color, shape, and texture to tell each character's story, from the suited-up Sterling Cooper executives to the secretaries keeping the ad agency running. No matter how small the role, there was always a story behind the costume. And just as there was a social pecking order in the office, there was a sartorial hierarchy. Read on for the ten best-dressed characters at Sterling Cooper, ranked.

Mad Men aired on AMC from 2007 to 2015, ushering in new fashion trends inspired by the 1960s. Among them was the resurgence of the slim fit suit that helped transform Jon Hamm into the advertising executive Don Draper. The suit was emblematic of midcentury masculinity and conveyed Don's emotional arc and status at Sterling Cooper in very effective ways. It was also very stylish and inspired a surge of menswear sales that continue to affect the fashion world today.

Related: Mad Men: 10 Hidden Details About Peggy Olson's Costume You Didn't Notice

Below are ten hidden details about Don Draper's costume you probably didn't notice.

Mad Men, a TV series about the advertising world of the 1960s, became a smash hit when it began airing on AMC in 2007. Running for seven seasons, it made the character Don Draper, played beautifully by Jon Hamm, seem like someone who might really have existed.

Troubled, womanizing, often drowning his sorrows in alcohol, Don was also an advertising genius. He delivered pitches that left executives begging the Sterling Cooper agency to take them on as clients, and had his creative underlings mesmerized by his thought process, wishing they could possess a fraction of his talent.

Related: Mad Men: 10 Best Costumes On The Show, Ranked

But Don wasn’t always at the top of his game, professionally or personally. Here are 5 times he was an absolute genius, and 5 times he wasn’t.

The period drama Mad Men aired for seven seasons on AMC from 2007to 2015 and introduced viewers to the world of 1960s advertising. It featured a star-studded cast that included Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss (The Handmaid’s Tale), January Jones, Christina Hendricks, Jared Harris (Chernobyl), and John Slattery, among others.

Related: The Handmaid’s Tale: 10 Quotes That Will Terrify And Inspire You

Each character had their own storied past and fascinating storylines from season to season, sometimes with bits and pieces revealed as the series progressed.

But even so, there are some hidden details you might have missed about the main characters, most of whom worked at the fictional Sterling Cooper advertising agency.

The characters of Mad Men are hardly known for their functional relationships. Between the frenemies, marriage betrayals, and office backstabbings, it's a wonder the series didn't end in some sort of tragic Shakespearean bloodbath.

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In the world of 1960s Madison Avenue advertising, image is everything. So even if Don, Peggy, or any employee at Sterling Cooper, would cheerfully throttle their boss or spouse, they grin in bear it all in the name of keeping up appearances. No wonder everybody drinks so much. Still, throughout all the booze-soaked misery, there are a few souls who find flickering moments of love and respect for each other. Here are the five best and five worst relationships on Mad Men.

Every community has its cliques, from middle school to the office. Often these cliques are based on people just gravitating towards each other. However, in Harry Potter, the cliques at Hogwarts are much more formalized. The Sorting Hat places students into four houses: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff, based on the students’ personalities and values.

The world of 1960s Madison Avenue advertising firms, as depicted on Mad Men, has finite groups as well. Top brass CEOs, big egos from accounts, volatile artistic temperaments from creative, and the gossipy secretarial pool. Some of these characters really behave like school children, so it's fitting to picture what would happen if the Sterling Cooper office showed up at Hogwarts.

Dark and gritty remakes are the plat du jour of TV’s golden age, especially when drawing from comic books. However, Sabrina Spellman’s story earns the imposing shadows and prodigious screams that color her new Netflix series, “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.” Ditching the bright and cheery tone established in Archie Comics’ original incantation and continued in the 1996 sitcom, “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” it leans hard into the “witch” affiliations even without the word in its title. While still a teen story at heart — and one built for the masses — Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s take is laden with demons, trolls, warlocks, and more, all of which growl with enough menace to evoke a steady stream of shrieks.

What’s even more welcome than effective frights is how eager “Chilling Adventures” is to embrace the genre’s inclusive, progressive spirit. The teens of Greendale High like dissecting the allegories within zombie movies...

Actress Teyonah Parris has signed with CAA and Shelter PR, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. She previously was with Apa.

The Juilliard graduate got her big break on AMC's Mad Men as Dawn Chambers, Sterling Cooper's first African-American employee, recurring for three seasons. She was a series regular on Starz's Survivor's Remorse (where THR critic Daniel Fienberg called her "excellent") and this fall simultaneously recurred on Fox's Empire as Det. Pamela Rose, who has a pivotal multi-episode arc with Andre.

In film, Parris' credits include Justin Simien's 2014 feature version of Dear White People (where she ...

Actress Teyonah Parris has signed with CAA and Shelter PR, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned. She previously was with Apa.

The Juilliard graduate got her big break on AMC's Mad Men as Dawn Chambers, Sterling Cooper's first African-American employee, recurring for three seasons. She was a series regular on Starz's Survivor's Remorse (where THR critic Daniel Fienberg called her "excellent") and this fall simultaneously recurred on Fox's Empire as Det. Pamela Rose, who has a pivotal multi-episode arc with Andre.

In film, Parris' credits include Justin Simien's 2014 feature version of Dear White People (where she ...

Not great, Bob!

Mad Men alum Vincent Kartheiser has been cast in Danny Strong’s legal drama pilot at Fox, TVLine has learned.

The potential Fox series is set in a law firm that reopens investigations that led to wrongful convictions, with the team putting themselves at risk to exonerate the innocent. In February, Russell Hornsby was cast as male lead Ezekiel “Easy” Boudreau, “a savvy, pragmatic and cool” lawyer employed by the firm. The female lead character, whose history includes being wrongfully found guilty (and later exonerated) in a high-profile case and dealing with the publicity fallout that went along with it,...

"Mad Men" fans love to hate Pete Campbell, and with good reason. But as actor Vincent Kartheiser recently admitted, there's an X factor to Pete's infamy -- his face.

"I just have one of those faces you just wanna rip to pieces," Kartheiser, who plays Pete, said in an interview with the Vulture.

Campbell dodged fan speculation of suicide only to become Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce's official punching bag, getting hit in the face numerous times in "Mad Men" Season 5.

While Kartheiser has apparently had to deal with the inherent "punchability" of his mug since he was a kid, he rightfully credits the the "Mad Men" writers with carefully sculpting animosity towards his character over the seasons. Pete has impregnated Peggy, blackmailed Don and "pimped out" Joan. But as hard-to-swallow as those actions may be, they probably wouldn't sting as much if they weren't perpetrated by the cast's most eager weasel.

It’s been a busy season at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce (R.I.P.), full of new arrivals, rites of passage, abrupt departures (professional and corporeal), divorces, fistfights, acid trips and assignations. And the tumultuous events taking place on the surface have been mirrored by changes beneath it -- although in contrast to the elegant character profiles traced by Matthew Weiner and his writing staff, the show’s stylistic calculations sometimes come across as ad hoc, tailored to the needs of a given moment or a specific episode rather than fitting into an overarching plan. Especially in the opening stretch of this fifth go-round, the six weeks leading up to midpoint episode "At the Codfish Ball" -- a highlight of both the season and the series -- the show made several uncharacteristic departures from the naturalistic master style laid out in the pilot episode, from the temporal loops of "Far...

Trying to predict what happens on Mad Men is a fool’s game. That’s because the show’s creator/head writer/executive producer/genius, Matthew Weiner (I didn’t think I could ever worship a small-screen auteur the way I used to worship Scorsese when I was in college — but Weiner wins that level of awe in me), learned a lesson well from his former capo David Chase, and that is to keep the lid of omertà clamped tight over everything that happens. When you’ve got a genuinely great television series, leak and reveal…nothing. Maintain the sacredness of silence.

And Bam, just like that, with one wry smile Don Draper is back. This season's pure lack of Don came to an inevitable end Sunday night, when millions of viewers tuned in to a cheapened Megan, a beat-up Pete, a dead Lane, an aging Joan, a rising Peggy -- and Roger Sterling's ass.

Chalk it up to character development, this season Matthew Weiner put some serious work into his defensive line-up, and man aren't we all hoping it'll pay off when the show's star quarterback, Mr. Draper himself, returns to carry Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce all the way to the top. Did you hear that speech he gave to Dow Chemical? He's back...

In the larger context of the series, this season was the season of the Not Don -- and it left nothing but a capacious gap in the show's usual modus operandi: catering to the creative masturbations of...

In one of the early episodes of the fifth season of Mad Men, Roger Sterling asks the question that stated a major theme for the entire season: When are things going to go back to normal?

When it comes to Don Draper and his third wife, Megan, the answer may lie in Don's come-hither look at the blonde in the bar in the final scene of the the fifth season finale.

When Don asked Megan to marry him at the end of the fourth season of Mad Men, I was disappointed. I wanted Don to do things differently than he had with Betty. He seemed to have a chance with the blonde career woman. But he dumped her for Megan, a model-esque secretary who he slept with one night on the sofa in his office. Shades of Betty, whom he met while she was modeling fur coats for him. Both Megan and Betty were intelligent,...