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No, you're not dreaming, 'Mad Men' really ended last night; was it a perfect ending?
Ad it up: A splendid drama, 'Mad Men,' comes to an end
By FRAZIER MOORE / bigstory.ap.org/content/frazier-moore
May. 18, 2015
This image released by AMC shows, from left, John Slattery as Roger Sterling, Jon Hamm as Don Draper, Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell, Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris and Kevin Rahm as Ted Chaough, in a scene from the final season of "Mad Men." The series finale airs on Sunday. (Justina Mintz/AMC via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) — "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner promised a finale that was "dramatic and appropriate."
He delivered. This incomparable drama set in the 1960s New York advertising world concluded its seven-season run Sunday night on AMC with a resolution that rang true to its spirit and likely left its devotees satisfied, even as they bade it farewell with regret.
Spoiler alert: Read no further if you don't want to know what happened.
"A lot has happened," Don Draper (series star Jon Hamm) tells Stephanie, a damaged young woman from his past, after his wayward odyssey from New York finally brings him to her doorstep in Los Angeles.
Mainly, he is distraught after hearing from his daughter Sally, back in New York, that her mother, his ex, is dying of lung cancer.
He phoned Betty (January Jones), declaring that he would take their three kids after she passed. She turned him down. She intends for them to live with her brother and his wife.
"Please don't let your pride interfere with my wishes," she said coolly. "I want to keep things as normal as possible. And your not being here is part of that."
Stephanie, too, is a woman in need. But she, too, turns down Don's offer to help.
"Mad Men" traced Draper's journey through the 1960s in his identity as a successful, charismatic but tormented ad man. The series' end brought that phase of his life to a close. And it seemed that after a lifetime of running and shifting identities, he had truly dealt himself out of any meaningful relationships.
Meanwhile, Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) and his estranged wife reunited, moving to a new life and his terrific new job in Wichita, Kansas, of all places.
Roger (John Slattery) is making a third try at marriage — tying the knot with Don's second ex-wife's mother, Marie.
Joan (Christina Hendricks) finds she can't have it all. Her new man, Richard, a wealthy retiree who adores her, won't accept her decision to start a promising new venture: a film production studio. He wants her all to himself. For the second and presumably last time, he walks out. Joan remains her own woman.
Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) is settling in at her new workplace, the giant McCann-Erickson ad agency, where she and Stan (Jay R. Ferguson), her art-director colleague with whom she has worked and bickered for years, finally realize what every viewer has long suspected: They're in love.
And what of Don?
CONTINUE READING: bigstory.ap.org/article/af1064d4fb714a4593adbafa956bb77d/ad-it-splendid-drama-mad-men-it-comes-end
AP Entertainment
✔
@apentertainment
No, you're not dreaming, 'Mad Men' really ended last night; was it a perfect ending?
Ad it up: A splendid drama, 'Mad Men,' comes to an end
By FRAZIER MOORE / bigstory.ap.org/content/frazier-moore
May. 18, 2015
This image released by AMC shows, from left, John Slattery as Roger Sterling, Jon Hamm as Don Draper, Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell, Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris and Kevin Rahm as Ted Chaough, in a scene from the final season of "Mad Men." The series finale airs on Sunday. (Justina Mintz/AMC via AP)
NEW YORK (AP) — "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner promised a finale that was "dramatic and appropriate."
He delivered. This incomparable drama set in the 1960s New York advertising world concluded its seven-season run Sunday night on AMC with a resolution that rang true to its spirit and likely left its devotees satisfied, even as they bade it farewell with regret.
Spoiler alert: Read no further if you don't want to know what happened.
"A lot has happened," Don Draper (series star Jon Hamm) tells Stephanie, a damaged young woman from his past, after his wayward odyssey from New York finally brings him to her doorstep in Los Angeles.
Mainly, he is distraught after hearing from his daughter Sally, back in New York, that her mother, his ex, is dying of lung cancer.
He phoned Betty (January Jones), declaring that he would take their three kids after she passed. She turned him down. She intends for them to live with her brother and his wife.
"Please don't let your pride interfere with my wishes," she said coolly. "I want to keep things as normal as possible. And your not being here is part of that."
Stephanie, too, is a woman in need. But she, too, turns down Don's offer to help.
"Mad Men" traced Draper's journey through the 1960s in his identity as a successful, charismatic but tormented ad man. The series' end brought that phase of his life to a close. And it seemed that after a lifetime of running and shifting identities, he had truly dealt himself out of any meaningful relationships.
Meanwhile, Pete (Vincent Kartheiser) and his estranged wife reunited, moving to a new life and his terrific new job in Wichita, Kansas, of all places.
Roger (John Slattery) is making a third try at marriage — tying the knot with Don's second ex-wife's mother, Marie.
Joan (Christina Hendricks) finds she can't have it all. Her new man, Richard, a wealthy retiree who adores her, won't accept her decision to start a promising new venture: a film production studio. He wants her all to himself. For the second and presumably last time, he walks out. Joan remains her own woman.
Peggy (Elisabeth Moss) is settling in at her new workplace, the giant McCann-Erickson ad agency, where she and Stan (Jay R. Ferguson), her art-director colleague with whom she has worked and bickered for years, finally realize what every viewer has long suspected: They're in love.
And what of Don?
CONTINUE READING: bigstory.ap.org/article/af1064d4fb714a4593adbafa956bb77d/ad-it-splendid-drama-mad-men-it-comes-end