Spoilers Mad Men Ending thoughts

[diabeticman]

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[TreasonousBastard]

1. You want a show about advertising-- check out Happyish

[BlueJazz]

2. The last episode was a winner for me. The Group /Coke thing was a riot!

[diabeticman]

3. I was expecting more.

My wife wanted Peggy to go in business with Joan.


We were both impressed by Kerinan Shipka's scenes these last 2 episodes.

[TeamPooka]

4. KS is one of the most amazing actors I've ever seen.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

6. Its all there in the possibilities

Peggy (with Stan) could go into business with Joan.

You are right about about Kerinan Shipka too. She went from a 5 year old with a plastic dry cleaning bag on her head to a woman. Well done.

[nolabear]

11. That line depressed the hell out of me.

Of course it might be because it hit too close to home, but her leaving her dreams and the opportunity to live her life to become the grownup that the grownups couldn't be made me really sad.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

5. +1

Don isn't going anywhere at the moment other than doing a Victory lap with the next new thing, incidentally, his biggest thing ever.

If they wanted to go that route, they could easily form a spin off now with Joan, Peggy, Stan and maybe even cameo's with Don. Joan's new company has not only Cosgrove's account as a client but soon Lear jet too....

[AngryOldDem]

7. I'm reserving judgment right now.

I DVR'd it. I admit I was a little underwhelmed, especially after watching a lot of the marathon since Wednesday. I don't know if it's because expectations are set so high for an ending to a successful series like Mad Men, or that the creator just doesn't know how to end it (or can't bring himself to), but it's been a rare finale that I haven't felt let down after watching it. (The West Wing is about the only exception.)

It felt rushed -- it should have been a two-hour show, with limited commercials to bring everything to a satisfying closure. (I could say more, but don't want to give away any spoilers.)

I will say this: I have seen some AMAZING acting over the years. Here's to Jon Hamm, John Slattery, Christina Hendricks, and Kiernan Shipka. Bravo, all.

[CanSocDem]

8. Just perfect.

I remember when that Coke ad debuted. We all thought it was a cynical rip-off of the youth culture by a corporation that was more closely associated with our parents generation.

That last scene confirms it was as we thought it was. A stoner fantasy thought up by a half-baked alcoholic adman. To its credit, the ad paid homage to the 'spirit' of the 60's...

You have to think CocaColaINC. was heavily involved with this last episode. When the boss at McCann is handing out clients to the group, CocaCola is mentioned with a hushed reverence that makes it sound like the 'holy grail' of clients. Mentioned again, uncomfortably, when Peggy is trying to lure Don back to NYC.

Perfectly despicable portrayal of Corporate America.

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[HEyHEY]

10. Hey, but Coke IS the holy grail of clients

So for him to come up with that ad for Coke means he has basically become the greatest ad man at the time. The total peak.

One neat part about that ending though is it suddenly made Don seem like he really existed. An ad everyone is familiar with suddenly brought into the show at the end, a great fusion of fantasy and reality.

[HEyHEY]

9. I feel there was a lot of stuff that wasn't properly addressed.

First that Betty, someone Don cares about, has just been killed by a product he spent years pushing on the public. In a way he's killed his brother and now his ex-wife. You'd think that'd be a little more for him to deal with than it was.

Second apparently, and I hope the Coke ad ending means this did NOT happen, Gene and Bobby are going to be raised by their aunt and uncle. The source of Don's misery and torment often stems from being raised by his aunt, who didn't want him. I feel like Don shoulda fought harder than he did to prevent that from happening.

Third: It was out of nowhere, but suddenly Stephanie gives him the "You're not even family" speech (A couple years after he gave her a G-note of course). That was out of character and kind of out of nowhere, but it was Don's last comfort suddenly ripped from him. Whenever the chips were really down Anna's family is where he felt comfort. Now he's told to piss off by one of them. I guess that's why he had the breakdown. But it was a bit unsupported for Stephanie to do that.

I genuinely thought he was going to quietly jump off that cliff and we'd fade to black and we didn't. That was good. But when he says goodbye to Peggy and she's in bits before Stan says he loves her and she forgets ALL about Don was a bit of a quick transition and didn't work for me.



Also, neat hint at the ending again.... Betty spoke Italian and they went to Italy.... that Coke ad was shot atop a mountain in Italy.