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Donsgirl
Member
08-01-2005
| Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 10:43 am 
I noticed him but could not remember his name or where from.
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Lakecat
Member
10-01-2006
| Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 4:40 pm
I've always known that would be Betty's demise. The writers focused on her smoking throughout the series. I was beginning to think he was going to stay in that Okl town and work at the motel as a handy man, return to his roots as Dick.
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Sunday, May 17, 2015 - 8:27 pm
It was good.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Sunday, May 17, 2015 - 8:42 pm
And they all live happily ever after. Blah.
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Kc103
Member
07-13-2004
| Sunday, May 17, 2015 - 9:09 pm
Wonder if they'd give any thought to reprising for a movie down the road at some point.
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Roblover
Member
05-17-2011
| Sunday, May 17, 2015 - 10:56 pm
Was thinking after after watching finale if at the end Don is smiling when he was meditating because the idea for the famous Coke ad came to him and he went back to ad agency and pitched it.
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Sunday, May 17, 2015 - 11:00 pm
That's exactly what I was thinking, Roblover. The hippie coke commercial was Don's future endeavor.
(I was like 5 years old when that commercial out, and I still remember it  )
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Roblover
Member
05-17-2011
| Sunday, May 17, 2015 - 11:12 pm
Naja, glad you thought of it too. I think that smile he gets was when the idea came to him. Anyway, that is my wish for his ending.
Did anyone catch the name of Joan's production company? I have watched it twice and it appears to be two names (she mentioned in the last episode about how a company needed two names)....I heard her last name, Holloway, but the other name sounds like Harris to me. Anyone know?
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Mush
Member
09-09-2002
| Sunday, May 17, 2015 - 11:19 pm
Loved the ending. Yes, Joan's company was Holloway / Harris -- her maiden and married names. So, she has her two names without a partner. Good for her!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Sunday, May 17, 2015 - 11:26 pm
Joan's new company is "Holloway-Harris". Holloway is Joan's mother! LOL!
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Naja
Member
06-28-2003
| Sunday, May 17, 2015 - 11:29 pm
ooops, delete
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Melfie1222
Member
07-29-2002
| Monday, May 18, 2015 - 12:13 am
But they don't all live happily ever after in the end, they never did. It would have been too neat and old fashioned tv if everything had been tied up clean and happy. Yes, Peggy got a happy ending (which I didn't see coming at all, but loved it, it felt real and true and made me a little weepy and cheery at the same time - yay Peggy!) Joan didn't really, because while she's running her own business, her maybe-close-to-perfect guy left her because of it. Betty certainly doesn't live happily ever after, and her kids don't get to either, because of that. Even Don after his 'awakening' or whatever, is still at heart the same cynical a-hole he's always been. Turning what could have been a spiritual experience into an advertising jingle... vintage Don.
I thought it was great! I will miss it.
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Csnog
Member
07-18-2002
| Monday, May 18, 2015 - 7:39 am
I was delighted that Joan walked away from the cocaine future that he represented of the 70s era, and will leave him penniless. Joan marched to her own tune and always had enough money. Why she stayed in the same apt. always made me curious, but money didn't move her....success did.
This past season showed more and more of Peggy and what was right before her eyes but the writers did a hurried job on that relationship.
Roger got what he needed...A tough mother figure that stood up to him toe to toe.
Betty was always a child, treated her children as adults to care for 'her' feelings. The sandwich sealed that for me. Only her feelings were hurt, putting her son down for giving away a second sandwich to another.
Pete wanted to be Don but he could never attain that through his slogging along, and his own ex realized the situation of being in the subs as her lost future, so it was an easy wrap.
We are left with Don and an anonymous man who brought light to his life in his story of being neglected as Don was brought up the same except that females were to be used for every relief known.
Don left the office after he realized he was cloned, and the company had a younger version of himself. Must have been a huge letdown to his ego, so off he went.
Don had the ability to read people and situations. That alone is, and was his claim to fame yet he didn't see it...until that moment.
As for the ending with the largest coke ad ever....Did Don go back and do it or did he phone the idea in?
In the end it was what the 60s was all about....Finding yourself amid a changing world and leaving the door open for a follow up TV movie.
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Hskrfan
Member
06-30-2011
| Monday, May 18, 2015 - 10:20 am
I would have liked some closure with Megan and would have loved to see Harry fired and replaced by a computer.....
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Roblover
Member
05-17-2011
| Monday, May 18, 2015 - 4:01 pm
Thanks Mush and Naja, for clarifying Joan's company's name for me.
I, too, Csnog, am glad Joan got away from that guy. He wanted Joan to be someone she was not. Don has taken off numerous times.....I think his running away is more of way to fill his creative tank then just running away from situations...sorta combination.
When I think back on tv series I have loved and how disappointed I was with their final show, I have to say I think the Mad Men writers did a great job on their finale. I really do not want a follow up movie. I am happy where all the characters were at the end.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Monday, May 18, 2015 - 4:10 pm
"I was delighted that Joan walked away from the cocaine future that he represented of the 70s era, and will leave him penniless. "
I don't understand how she would be leaving her ex boyfriend penniless. They weren't married so there would be no community property or alimony.
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Debra
Member
11-19-2003
| Monday, May 18, 2015 - 5:38 pm
I read that as the cocaine and lifestyle would leave him penniless, not Joan.
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Sanfranjoshfan
Member
09-17-2000
| Monday, May 18, 2015 - 6:25 pm
Oh...that didn't occur to me because he was apparently very wealthy...he was talking about them getting a vacation home in the mountains or somewhere else - I forgot where - or both.
Even Charlie Sheen hasn't wound up penniless and I didn't think that Joan's bf was anywhere near that kind of drug use/lifestyle! We only saw Joan's bf use cocaine once.
PS - I've known very well off people who occasionally used cocaine recreationally in the 80s and it never developed into anything that hurt their finances. Just like with alcohol, not everyone who uses it gets addicted to it. Of course, it's best not to test it to see if you're one of the ones that won't get hooked!
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Lakecat
Member
10-01-2006
| Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 10:01 am
Very fitting to end it with the greatest commercial ever made.
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Merrysea
Moderator
08-13-2004
| Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 10:50 am
I loved seeing that commercial again!
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Smokey
Member
07-07-2003
| Wednesday, May 20, 2015 - 11:04 am
I loved the ending, pretty much everything about it.
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Kappy
Member
06-28-2002
| Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - 7:29 pm
I agree with Roblover that they did a great job for a series finale and would not need to see a movie in the future.
I love the idea that Don smiled during that last meditation session because an idea for a coke ad had just popped into his head. He was always about listening to music and how it changed during that decade.
I felt he left that one meeting because he was totally bored with it. It was a crowded room filled more with manufacturing ideas then being creative. And again I agree with Roblover that he was filling up his creative tank. Remember the ads that featured cars out on the salt flats for a varity of products in the 70's?
At first, I really didn't think he went back but now that some of you mention it, I think you are all on to something! Great ending!
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Wednesday, November 04, 2015 - 3:55 pm
I have been bingeing on Mad Men for past couple weeks. Just finished. Satisfying ending. The Coke commercial was perfect.
My father lived that life on a smaller scale. He worked for a small advertising agency in Chicago from '45 until his death in '73 from smoking. There are things in the ad men's lives that make me wonder about my father. Hmmmm.
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Lakecat
Member
10-01-2006
| Wednesday, November 04, 2015 - 4:53 pm
Seems like it would have been a great era to be an adult Sans the racism and sexism. I sure do miss the actors. I'd love Jon Hamm to be the new James Bond. I haven't heard mention of it.
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Colordeagua
Member
10-24-2003
| Thursday, November 05, 2015 - 6:25 am
My all-time favorite commercial -- still gives me goosebumps when I think of it / hear it in my mind. Debra Winger saying, "Cotton - the fabric of our lives." I occasionally see the commercial now with, IIRC, Taylor Swift. She does NOT do it like Debra Winger. Debra's voice . . . .
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