In Time and Life, I suggested that if California was Don’s Jerusalem, Coke was an ad’s man’s paradise. We cut from Don meditating in California to McCann’s most famous advert for the world’s most famous company. But, if anything, the last scene of Mad Men was the opposite. Matthew Weiner finessed his craft on a show whose ending still divides audiences (I’d go with masterful, rather than annoying). I’ve been thinking a lot about the conclusion of The Sopranos throughout these past few weeks. With Don on the west coast, finding peace with himself, as the other Sterling Cooper crowd drifted off happily into the 1970s. So who had “a happy ending” marked down on their card? A thing like that.įor all the bold theories about how the show might conclude, it ended just as we probably suspected from the last few episodes. ‘A lot has happened’ – Don Draper/Dick Whitman
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