TV fans have been given a warning after Mad Men finally returned to Netflix – including one very controversial episode. The acclaimed series focused on the advertising industry in the 1960s, following charming creative director Don Draper (Jon Hamm) at a New York-based agency as he wows brands.
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The show ran on AMC for seven seasons between 2007 and 2015, with John Slattery, Elisabeth Moss, January Jones, Christina Hendricks, Kiernan Shipka, and Robert Morse rounding out the cast. Mad Men landed back on Netflix in the UK recently, giving us all another opportunity to return to Sterling Cooper – however, one particular instalment had a warning message before it started.
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The third episode of season three, titled My Old Kentucky Home, first aired in 2009 and showed Roger Sterling (John) throwing a party at a country club where he donned blackface and sang an anti-slavery song. During the scene, he grinned while telling his guests, including partner Jane Siegel (Peyton List): ‘I did this at home for her with a little shoe polish. She thought it was a scream.’.
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Don was visibly disgusted and walked away, while Pete Campbell (Vincent Kartheiser) winced throughout the performance. While the episode in question was not included when Mad Men appeared on Netflix in Canada last year – instead, the series skipped from the second episode to the fourth with no explanation – it is available to stream in its entirety in the UK.
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