Is Mad Men the most bingeworthy old show of the coronavirus quarantine?

The Ringer

While Mad Men isn't currently one of Netflix's top 10 most popular shows, research from Parrot Analytics found that its viewership spiked 30% in March and 75% in April over last year. "There’s something both specific and paradoxical about going back to Mad Men in a time of crisis," says Alison Herman. "I have the same attachment to Peggy, Pete, or Joan that I do to any fictional character I’ve spent more than a decade of my life with, but that fondness plays out against a darker emotional backdrop of ennui, anxiety, and mounting despair, whose indicative opening image is that of a man tumbling into the abyss. Isn’t that how we all feel these days?" She adds: "Beyond catharsis, Mad Men’s depiction of historical chaos can be strangely calming. After all, it’s the past; not every fictional character got a happy ending, but society itself survived and moved on, despite the not-unreasonable feeling it was in the process of disintegrating."