What was your least favorite season?

I'd have to choose 7-B, probably.

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I didn't like season 6 much. Didn't like the merger storyline and the introduction of new characters like Ted, Cutler, and Bob. Didn't like Megan's soap opera storyline. I didn't like the Don/Sylvia affair. The side story of Pete's Mom and her male nurse was silly. When I'm watch Mad Men I usually skip season 6. However were some memorable scenes like "Grandma Ida", Sally catching Don "comforting" Sylvia, Don telling his whorehouse story to the Hersey folks, and him taking his kids to see that same whorehouse. Also, memorable --- Don getting suspended and meeting Lou and Duck on the way out - "going down?"

Season 2 for me seems the closest in the show to a "filler" season, which is to say it's still great but it has much less of consequence, and much less interesting plotlines on the whole, than the others. Most of the least interesting plots can be found here, like Peggy and the priest, Betty's horse-riding, too much Duck, and strangely I even found The Mountain King to be underwhelming and too on-the-nose compared to Don's future visits to Cali, which are great. Also, though Meditations in an Emergency is a superb finale, I think the tail-end of S2 with Betty's disenchantment with Don reads like more of a dry-run for the end of S3 when all of that will actually come to fruition -- it gives S2, in retrospect, a kind of holding-pattern feel, like the writers couldn't put all their cards on the table just yet.

Season 1 is better than 2, but still not one of my favorites. I'm still kind of coming to terms with the first several episodes of 7B, but right now for me I'd say Seasons 3 through 7A are all absolute perfection, with 4 and 6 sticking out as the greatest.

Season 5 might actually be my favorite (it's between 5 and 4). There was a bit too much Megan, and Fat Betty wasn't a great storyline, but otherwise it was incredibly strong, and had so many classic episodes, like 'The Other Woman' and 'Far Away Places'.

My least favorite is Season 6, which saw the show start to repeat itself with the drawn out Sylvia storyline. Many of the storylines suffered from a slightly stale feel, though they managed to wrap it up spectacularly with those last few episodes. It was still a strong season, but it stands out as easily the weakest.

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Season 5 for sure....Megan and Don (we called them MegaDon) being forced down our throats was horrible...plus I wasnt a fan of Joan's storyline...or Pete's....or Fat Betty.MM stayed a great show to the end, but its this season where it turned from Brilliant to good/very good-

"When life presents you with lemons, squeeze out the juice and squirt it in your enemies eyes."

I enjoyed the entire series, it had become one of my all time favourite TV shows. I would say that season 6 is the weakest season mostly due to all the secondary characters but even then, MAD MEN was a consistently amazing show