Why Mad Men is better than The Sopranos

And The Wire, and Succession, and Breaking Bad, and Game of Thrones, and Twin Peaks…

Huge spoilers for all seven seasons of Mad Men follow.

I’ve already used a superlative for Kiernan Shipka and her performance as Sally Draper on Mad Men. But I just finished the series, properly¹, and have to make a bigger claim: that it’s the single most deserving of the title out of the contenders for “greatest entry of the prestige TV era”. Which, I do…