When it was finally announced that season 7 of Mad Men would in fact be the last season I poured myself a drink. And here it is, the day of mourning. The final episode will be broadcasted tonight.
Matthew Weiner wrote the script for the first episode 6 years before it was finally picked up by AMC in 2007. The show was a risk: its protagonists were flawed and it was set in an era that was not experienced by the audience. Yet it worked on both levels as it projected the rawness of life and the appeal of nostalgia. Although it has never been the most popular show on television it is perhaps the most well produced; the costumes, the sets, the performances and the incredible wit of it all.
There have been so many theories about how the final episode will end. My own theory is that it will end the way it started, the way that has been suggested all along in the opening credits, with Don Draper's world collapsing, falling past the projections of the American dream he created and disappearing into solitude.
However it ends, tonight somewhere among the clouds of cancerous smoke and the sound of slurring conversation we will catch the final glimpse of the ad men of Madison Avenue and their mad mad world.
- Alessandra
*Mosaik does not take credit for the images used in this article
No comments:
Post a Comment