The Americans' Elizabeth Jennings VS. Mad Men's Don Draper.

This spring, we've combined the best of March Madness and Sochi to create the Anti-Herolympics. View the bracket, read the pairings and VOTE for the most diabolical anti-hero of all time.

The Americans'Elizabeth Jennings VS. Mad Men's Don Draper

Don

Score 9/10

Mad Men is one of the best dramas in the history of television, and the nucleus it revolves around is a true anti-hero. He's whiskey-guzzling, lady-pleasuring, account-pitching badass. Don Draper. The guy who lies to everybody. Even himself.

From a distance, it looks like he has his life together, but in reality he's an identify thief with a checkered past. He's an alcoholic and sex fiend and has been indirectly responsible for approximately two suicides. (The less said about that the better.) He banged his kid's teacher, and carried on a complicated, occasionally degrading affair with his friend's wife. Oh, and Don's daughter walked in on him plowing this poor neighbor woman, in a scene that completely redefines the word awkward.

Despite it all, we still root for Don - not just to win the big account, but to find a way to be true to himself. He grew up a lot in the fifth season finale, when he successfully sells a product based on a big fat lie and then has a change of heart. Change of heart isn't the right phrase though, because that would imply he had a heart to begin with. He has a growth of heart. He stops the meeting and he tells the important clients the gross and embarrassing truth. You can practically see the weight drop off his shoulders. If only some weight could drop off his ex-wife's shoulders.

Don ends up losing his job because of that moment of honesty. It's the reverse of what he's been doing for years. Instead of lying for the good of his career, he puts his career in jeopardy by telling the truth. Now with his job taken away and his second marriage in serious trouble, Don has what every anti-hero needs: nothing to lose. -- Jack O.

Elizabeth

Score 8/10

Emotionally closed-off. Unfaithful in marriage. Viciously lethal. It’s not your token dapper, damaged dude. It’s TV’s most badass woman anti-hero, Elizabeth Jennings. The first lady of The Americans is just as ruthless as any male murderer, but her story is layered with intimately female conflicts. She’s a sexual assault survivor, a mom and a wife. The story deals with Elizabeth’s complicated relationship to family and her very simple relationship to her motherland. (Her whole career is for Russia with love.) This dynamic means that Elizabeth can literally knife a bitch, clean it off, and minutes later turn to butter her family’s dinner rolls.

Elizabeth scores bonus points because The Americans’ second season faces the unexpected consequence of political relevancy. While Putin is annexing a country like a kindergartener grabbing candy, the fictional struggles of Elizabeth and Phillip Jennings take on an eerie light of familiarity. Sure, it’s a period piece, but the sentiment feels awfully timely. Underneath the disguises and espionage, Elizabeth’s steely patriotism feels ominous – a tone that few shows can pull off, but The Americans carries with bravado. -- Katie M. Lucas

Final Winner: Don Draper

We have to give this one to Don for being more relatable - Instead of top secret spy stuff, Don lies about what we all lie about. Although a Mad Men/Americans crossover episode where the Russians hire Elizabeth to kill Don would be pretty amazing.

The Americans' Elizabeth Jennings VS. Mad Men's Don Draper.

This spring, we've combined the best of March Madness and Sochi to create the Anti-Herolympics. View the bracket, read the pairings and VOTE for the most diabolical anti-hero of all time.