Mad Men finale! (Spoilers, of course)

[Anonymous]

Matthew Weiner on the ending:

http://m.hitfix.com/

[Anonymous]

Sorry. Here's the better link:

http://m.hitfix.com/whats-alan-watching/matthew-weiner-explains-the-mad-men-ending-or-not

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This show was always written in carefully crafted haiku.

I always saw the whole show as a metaphor for the U.S. in the 20th century. Don emerges from the depression era, pulls himself up by his own bootstraps, cheats a little, but still very much self made. Gets himself out of the depression (his home of origin) into his new re-invented life of prosperity - in the same time frame as did the U.S. - post-war boom, cigarettes, the automobile, civilian/passenger air travel - all of it. Dawdles a little in the hippie life, but returns to full-throttle thrust ahead american motivation. Just like the U.S., the tawdry past is never far away-- his / our closet full of skeletons. A 20th-century coming-of-age metaphor.

Yes I was an english major.

But does he really come of age, or is it metaphorical of the cyclical nature of humanity? If he did indeed create the Coke commercial (which I believe he does), isn't he just going through the same cycle that we have born witness since the show's creation? Don is brilliant, Don has a crisis, Don goes on the lam, Don gets his shit together, then it starts all over again....

Totally agree with you. I thought the show was at least a season too long. Two or three times through the Don cycle of brilliance and despair was plenty.

Don's future will be periods of wandering and bursts of creativity. PP-- why would people think you are an English major?

Lol. Because English majors *always* let you know they were English majors. History majors (or anyone else, really) don't do that. Not sure why. I'm in a book club with an English major - it's the worst. Out of all the people I know, the only ones whose majors I know are English and engineering. English because they always point it out and engineering only when their jobs make it obvious.

[Anonymous]

I think the English major pp writes poorly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think the English major pp writes poorly.

Not poorly, but very academically. Very bound in academics. Really good journalism is where academics meet the real world and they don't collide.