How watching TV can be a complex intellectual exercise
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Anxious viewers have been thinking of their own theories of what might happen in upcoming Mad Men episodes, but the show's creator has stepped in to debunk some of them.
This season of Mad Men has generated a buzz that stems from several exhaustive Internet theories. The show's fans have debated everything from the likelihood that a character will die by the end of the season to the identity of the mysterious new character Bob Benson.
Dustin Rowles, a television writer for UPROXX.com, is responsible for popularizing two of the season's most talked-about theories.
On May 29, he published an article about a Reddit user who insisted that Megan Draper's story arc and fashion closely mirrored the real-life tragedy of serial killer victim Sharon Tate.
Mark Lieberman is a Summer 2013 Paste BN Collegiate Correspondent. Learn more about him here.
This story originally appeared on the Paste BN College blog, a news source produced for college students by student journalists. The blog closed in September of 2017.