I used to wish I was an adult in the 1960s. They seemed so romantic and somehow more mysterious than the way we do things now.

But with each season of Mad Men, I find my desire to live during that period waning. The men, simply put, are pigs.

Don has a beautiful wife. Megan is amazing and talented and loves Don. To repay that love, through what I can only imagine is a deep hatred for himself, he continues to sleep with Sylvia Rosen, a woman he actually pays when he's finished with her. He treats her like a prostitute. That she was the person Megan confided in about a miscarriage two days earlier was classic Mad Men.

Megan feels like a horrible person because she was unsure about her pregnancy and she felt God took any decision out of her hands.

Herb from Jaguar dropped by SCDP and made Joan feel very uncomfortable. He was, as Don said, "gutting the national campaign," which didn't seem to bother Pete at all. That could be because Pete's busy getting it on with someone other than his wife, as well. His neighbor, Brenda.

If the men are happy, it's usually because they just screwed over their wives. Don happened to meet up with Sylvia with Megan, thus putting him into a bad mood. Tangled webs are difficult to get into and out of and when they have no idea where the web begins and ends, that makes it even more difficult.

"The Collaborators" felt like some sort of tragedy about the wrong choices to make in a marriage. Brenda must have told her husband about what happened with Pete because he beat her to a bloody pulp. At the very least, Pete offered to call the authorities, although it would have been a grave error given he knew exactly why she was beaten as her husband was yelling behind her something to the effect Pete could deal with her now.

Arguably the most depressing moment of this fiasco was when Brenda, covered in blood, awaiting Trudy to attend to her with an iced cloth, begged Pete to take her to the city because she wanted to be with him. It was unimaginable to me that after being so badly beaten her first thought was to be taken away by Pete, in front of his wife, who was being so good to her.

He wouldn't even take her to a hotel, but offered to call a cab. The person who took her to safety was the least likely candidate: Trudy. She who knew fully well Pete had been screwing Brenda in the hotel she let him have in the city. This quote made Trudy my hero:

I refuse to be a failure. I don't care what you want anymore. This is how it's going to work.You will be here only when I tell you to be here. I'm drawing a 50-mile radius around this house and if you so much as open your fly to urinate, I will destroy you. You understand?

Between Pete and Don, I cannot determine who is uglier on the inside. Pete knowingly treating a woman he just had an affair with, who was assaulted because of him like a piece of dirt on his shoe... or Don for pretending to continue to be in love with his wife while she hides inside a secret like a miscarriage because she's afraid she might say the wrong thing.

Don can't have Sylvia when he wants her and he imagines the brothel where he spent his teen years, but falls onto the floor outside his own apartment where his gorgeous wife is waiting for him. What on earth makes him hate himself so much? Is it he who feels like a gigolo? And isn't being faithful to Megan a pretty easy cure for that?

Peggy has been plagued by problems of her own at her new agency, but she has a supportive boss who gives her so much wiggle room. She's so lucky to be a woman in her position and all of the jokes in the world by the guys below who are wishing they were her are worth it to be where she is.

She's going to go head to head with SCDP for Heinz Ketchup thanks to a personal call she had with Stan. Ted's not going to let the opportunity pass, no matter how she heard about it. I can't wait to see how she does up against the people who taught her everything she knows, especially when they all seem to be falling apart.

Peggy has no idea how lucky she was to get out of SCDP. With their marriages falling apart, the men are making bad decisions at work and it's all tumbling further into their daily life than it has ever before, and it's been pretty bad in seasons past.

So far, watching Mad Men Season 6 I feel like I'm watching the beginning of a horror movie. I can't even imagine who will be left, let alone in one piece, at the end.

Carissa Pavlica is the managing editor and a staff writer and critic for TV Fanatic. She's a member of the Critic's Choice Association, enjoys mentoring writers, conversing with cats, and passionately discussing the nuances of television and film with anyone who will listen. Follow her on X and email her here at TV Fanatic.