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Mad Men‘s fifth season is almost here, thank goodness, after a wait that has felt like DECADES. Actually I’m lying about what it felt like because I’ve only recently gotten caught up on the last season of Mad Men, so it hasn’t really felt very long to me. And you know, even THAT was a lie because I still have two episodes left. I just cannot stop lying! I’m a real MAN, right? Like from the show? Just a bunch of terrible liars. Anyway, please, let’s get on with it! Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner recently talked with Grantland about the fifth season, and about how he sees the show eventually ending. Oh perfect, FINALLY we get some answers! About the ending of a show! That will happen in a few years! And if you’re thinking, “Hey, there’s no way he’s actually just going to straight-up tell them how he plans for the show to end because who would ever want to know about how a show they really like is going to end, this is probably safe to read,” well, STOP THINKING THAT! He straight-up tells them, pretty much! Here is a non-spoiler version, from Grantland:
When asked if he had an end point in mind for Mad Men‘s seventh and final season, Weiner answered in the affirmative: “I do know how the whole show ends,” he told us. “It came to me in the middle of last season. I always felt like it would be the experience of human life. And human life has a destination. It doesn’t mean Don’s gonna die. What I’m looking for, and how I hope to end the show, is like …
AHHHH, STOP! I can’t believe you were just going to tell us like that! I can’t believe you DID just tell us in the article that we all would have seen it if I hadn’t stopped copying-and-pasting when I did!!! Matthew! So for those of you who are itching to get a peak at the ending of Mad Men, you should have at it. For the rest of us, would you like to discuss some ways that Mad Men is definitely NOT going to end? Just to get this horrible spoiler taste out of our mouths? Great, me too!
- Don Draper is not going to quit the advertising business because he realized that, although it isn’t NEARLY fully to blame, his place in it only egged on his poor lifestyle choices. Then he is definitely not going to move somewhere quiet and start his own, I don’t know, garbage man business.
- All the men will not get pregnant.
- The camera will not zoom out, revealing that Mad Men was just a television show for THE CAST OF MAD MEN TO WATCH! The whole time!
- Peggy will not decide that she’s had enough of this career woman life, quit, and ask Don Draper to marry her. And then he won’t say yes, and they won’t live happily ever after.
- Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce will not downgrade their whole operation to a design photo blog.
Oh thank goodness, definitely not those! Those are some very safe and more importantly GOOD guesses, but they are definitely not how Mad Men is going to end. How else isn’t it going to end? Guys? Are you all reading the spoiler?!
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Mad Men is NOT going to end on an inexplicable quasi-religious cop out (*cough cough* BSG *cough cough* Lost).
Christ I hope not
“…i liked the BSG ending…” -says the guy with Edward James Olmos as his avatar
Sally Draper is so not going to stop masturbating.
Don Draper’s not gonna wake up next to Bob Newhart following a dream.
I watched the first season and came away feeling pretty “meh” about the whole thing. Does it get a whole lot better after that? Should I give this show a second chance?
YES!
Shoulda started with the 4th season
A fair and legitimate question IMO, and the answer is YES!
Joan is not going to have sex with you.
Joanie Darko
Joan will not run off with me and get married. Nope. Definitely not gonna happen. *cry*
it’s not going to end with peggy and pete’s grandchildren playing in a kindergarden with sally and glenn’s son when the camera slowly pans to a calendar and a close up will reveal that it’s 9/11. teacher runs in. end of show.
Mad Men will not turn out to be a long form advertisement for whiskey.
Sally will not decline Glen Bishop’s invitation to join his acid cult.
It will end with Don Draper staring at a snow globe with an ad agency inside it and then he’ll drop it, shattering it as he mumbles the word “Rosebud” while he rides the atom bomb all the way to the ground wearing his cowboy hat while shooting Mr. Burns.
Whoops, I mean, it WON’T end that way? Am I doing this right?
Don Draper will not turn out to be the 12th Doctor on an extended visit to Earth.
Don Draper as the Doctor? Hmmmmmmmmmm. I am going to need to be alone for a few minutes to think about that.
#grossgum
#sorry
badideajeans just pulled a Sally Draper.
it will not have half a persons face blown off
Mad Men
willbetter not end with a fucking movie.The real Don Draper will NOT appear in the final episode and have fake-Don go back to being Armin Tamzarian.
Guys, I accidentally read the spoiler. It’s interesting!
I don’t get it! If DD is actually going to be that old, how will Jon Hamm play him? If JH isn’t going to play him, then what’s the point . . . ahem, excuse me . . . I mean, how will they maintain emotional continuity with a whole new cast of oldies? Or is this just some last scene that suddenly brings everything up to the present day, like the last scene of Harry Potter? (I told you there’d be a spoiler.)
And if Weiner is NOT going to bring it up to the present day, then I don’t really understand the spoiler.
Here’s a game: Which old person plays which character? I say Betty White for Betty Draper. Nailed it!
The previous comment began with “SPOILER ALERT” in left/right angle brackets, which mysteriously got deleted. Sorry for forcing the spoiler on anyone!
Mad Men will not end with Betty becoming everyone’s favorite character.
I think the most likely end is that Peggy becomes President of the United States creating a positive role model for women and fixing every problem that comes up by being liberated and a good writer. Joan would be the vice president and provide women with a confusing role model that both allows for non-traditional body types to be considered attractive and also reinforces the stereotype that all men care about is huge breasts (luckily all women gain weight in their chest and only in their chest so this is great, Joan isn’t a genetic freak at all).
All of this feminist energy allows Trudy to finally follow her dream of one day attending community college…
If it dont end with the giddy Pete Campbell victory dance I’m gonna be hella pissed
Mad Men will not end in a misguided proposal to the absolute wrong fucking person.
He doesn’t want it to end in a fart?