Choosing the best Mad Men season isn’t easy when every one explores the 1960s with stunning visuals, deep characters, and sharp social critique.

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Mad Men explores motherhood through complex characters, but Peggy Olson’s secret and sacrifice make hers the show’s most powerful maternal arc.

The wounds remain discolored in Kathy Miller’s psyche, as raw and acute as the day they were inflicted. More than 15 years have elapsed since her youngest son, Joel, was thrust into a scandal of which ...