This Week in Mad Men: Season 5 Premiere (A Little Kiss)
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TIME JUMP We left the characters in October of '65 and rejoin them just after Memorial Day weekend, 1966, about 7 months later. Betty was totally absent; we see the outside of her new home and that's it. (Echoes of the pilot, in which Betty also wasn't featured.) Does this feel a bit like a reboot? A lot of the big concerns of last season - Don's relationship with Dr. Miller, Betty's crumbling marriage, the potential for SCDP to go under entirely - are no longer a pressing concern. Now we're exploring new relationships in a new era. BIG THEME: WE'VE SHIFTED FROM '50s TO '60s MODE…