Title: Creative Director at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce
Total Drinks This Season: 78½
His Usual: Canadian Club Whisky on the rocks
Most Creative Drink: Sally fixes him French toast with rum (Episode 9)
Drinking Buddy: Himself
Drunkest Moment: The weekend after the Clio Awards, he drinks so much he forgets which day it is, wakes up with a strange waitress—and still has a little hair of the dog.
Best Bon Mot: When Joan asks him for his drink order, Don says: “Make it simple, but significant.” (Episode 6)
In the Season 4 premiere, Don’s housekeeper remarks that he never eats, and there have been similar warnings every week for our tragic hero. (Even a prostitute refuses a drink with Don because she needs to get to dinner with her family.) Don’s sunk so low he usually doesn’t bother with mixers now—or friends. He drinks in the company of coworkers, reporters, dates—but many times, he drinks alone. He drinks after his slighted secretary Allison trashes his office. He drinks Smirnoff with Roger. He drinks an Old Fashioned at Benihana with Bethany. He drinks beer at home. He drinks sake and Chianti with Faye. Most prominently, he drinks bottles and bottles of whisky in the office. Don Draper never met a glass he didn’t want to empty.
