The Doorway
| "The Doorway" | |
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| Mad Men episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 1 & 2 |
| Directed by | Scott Hornbacher |
| Written by | Matthew Weiner |
| Featured music | "Hawaiian Wedding Song" by Elvis Presley |
| Original air date | April 7, 2013 |
| Running time | 89 minutes |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
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Ray Abruzzo as Jonesy (the doorman) |
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Ray Abruzzo as Jonesy (the doorman)
"The Doorway" is the two-part sixth season premiere of the American television drama series Mad Men. Officially counted as the first two episodes of the season, it figures as the 66th and 67th overall episodes of the series. It was written by series creator and executive producer Matthew Weiner and directed by executive producer Scott Hornbacher. It originally aired on the AMC channel in the United States on April 7, 2013.
The episode takes place in late December 1967 and on the early morning of January 1, 1968. It received strongly positive reviews from critics.
The episode opens with a point of view shot of "Jonesy" (Ray Abruzzo), the Drapers' doorman, who is in the throes of a heart attack. Dr. Arnold Rosen, a cardiac surgeon who also lives in the building, attends to him with chest compressions.
Don (Jon Hamm) is next shown lying on a beach reading Dante's Inferno, beside a sweating, bikini-clad Megan (Jessica Paré), who has just ordered a second cocktail. The Drapers are mixing business and pleasure on a trip to the Royal Hawaiian Hotel on an expenses-paid trip from Sheraton, which owns the hotel and is an SCDP client. At a luau, Megan, now a recognizable actress on a TV soap opera, is approached by a middle-aged woman seeking an autograph. "She really knew me," comments Megan. Don seems put off. That night, Don, unable to sleep, goes to the hotel bar, spots a young man completely drunk and scrunched up at the bar. Don encounters another slightly drunk man, who recognizes Don's lighter as an indication that he had served in the US military and identifies himself as Private Dinkins, a soldier on R&R from a tour in Vietnam. Dinkins reveals that he has been in the midst of his own bachelor party and points to the drunken man as his best man. He invites Don to give away his bride at the ceremony. The next morning after waking up alone, Megan finds Don participating in the ceremony on the beach and snaps a photo.
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