Mad Men is really finishing isn't it?

[EachandEveryone]

Oh I enjoyed last weeks so much. David Bowie was a real shock at the end a real signal that times moving on. Do you think we will ever see Sally or Betty again? There must only be a couple left

Peggy and Stan was utterly lame

Peggy will join Joan. In the spin off

Lalala not listening! Skipped over the last few posts and I will watch it in a bit and come backb

Oh, and Betty - so sad. I would have liked more of a focus on her, she was one of my favourite characters. Betty standing on the lawn, gun cocked and fag dangling out of her mouth, anyone?

WOW Loved that ending! Was pleased how (almost) everyone ended up, except Betty and Sally and the boys :( that was sad and unnecessary. Just glad it didn't show her dead or her funeral.

I always loved Don and the crying/hugging scene made me blurb.

I remember at the beginning always feeling on edge that something bad was going to happen and the finale episode had me on the edge of my seat too. Thought Don was going to kill himself :(
Going to miss MM so much!

Hadn't thought that the Coke ad was Don's creation, but if it is the case then that makes the ending a lot better. Lammy7, the hugging scene with Don made me cry too.

I totally agree he went back to New York and created the Coke add. Maybe a different man.

Someone has to succumb to the fags. It couldn't be all glamorous all the time. I felt sorry for the children and I hope their aunt and uncle are kind I don't remember ever seeing them?

I haven't found much in the way of online talk about the ending. Even the guardian weekly blog is very short and sweet. I suppise there was nothing complicated about the ending. Not like The Sopranos!

Wasn't it Peggy who was so excited about working with Coke? I like to think it was her and Stan that did the Coke ad at the end :) I reckon Don stayed in the "hippy zone" and helped others accept who they are!

Poor, poor Betty (and Sally) - loved her. I think Sally was right that they should live with Henry (and not Betty's brother and SIL). He is the only father Gene has known and been a good father to Bobby too - surely, it would break his heart to loose them too.

The Peggy and Stan reveal didn't ring true to me. I thought they would get together over a boozy session in the office and then realise the next day it was real. Joan was well shot of her aged sleaze!

With Don it was back to the same old, same old (like his earlier sojourn in California). I thought he would try to do more for Stephanie (even though she pointed out he wasn't family) as her aunt had done so much for Dick and would have wanted Stephanie to have a good life. Mind you he's not been a good father to his kids.

I loved the image of Pete and Trudy getting on the Learjet - she looked so glamorous (much more so than in the early 60's clothes) but still think Pete is a s**t.

was annoyed last week that Don gave Megan a $1million - what about his kids? He gave Betty zilch.

What about the kids? i dont recall any indication that he hasnt been paying child support, and I expect his banker will go on doing so. It's not like Megan got all his money. a man in a job like like that has long since moved on from simply earning an income, he has money invested on wall street, I guarantee it. And a family at that level would have created college savings for each child, there are probably trust funds. Thats the sort of family the original Don Draper was from, and the sort of family Betty was born in. So were Sterling, and Pete. i am sure Don played that part of the game. The kids will be fine moneywise. By 1980 Sally will have a degree and be wearing power suits with little cloth bow ties. i worked for women like her. Her younger brothers will be total trust fund frat boys. i knew them too.

As for Betty, i expect there was a settlement, it just wasnt a plot point. If the divorce was in NY state she got alimony (and it may have continued after her remarriage even). The marital property was divided, but not until Betty was ready to move, I recall. Megan got a lump sum instead of alimony.

Don definitely made the coke ad, do you remember the scene when he was trying to leave the retreat? The girl he was talking to in the reception had really distinctive plaits, one on either side with ribbons on the top and bottom of each plait. In the coke ad one of the girls singing has the exact same hairstyle. it's details like that that made MM so good.

Loved Peggy and Stans happy ending.

Brilliant show, I will really miss it.

I thought the ending with Peggy typing at the typewriter with Stan behind her was her typing out her resignation, as the shot before or after was Joan looking happy taking a phone call which I took it to be Peggy to accept her offer.... Or maybe all that is wishful thinking! Definitely think don did the coke advert, him smiling doing yoga was his epiphany moment!!

I think Peggy was behind the whole Coke ad.
He taught her. She was his prodigy .

I wonder if there will be a spin off show?

What would make a good spinoff. Who would it center around? (I have withdrawal symptoms already)

Sally.

I agree it should be Sally.

I am in mourning. Loved it so much even used bits of it in work. I'm also glad Roger is happy, having met his match.

I'm watching final episode now, will post again once I've watched it!

Oh it was great

No more MM

Coke ad was Don's , that what he was smiling about. Peggy said he needed to come back ( and not kill himself presumably) and work on the coke ad.

Brilliant.

Now I'll be singing that song all sodding day!

I don't think the Betty story line was unnecessary, they all smoked like chimneys, smoke like she does and you're lucky to dodge some kind of smoking related illness. So sad though.

It was definitely Dons coke ad, Matthew Weiner confirmed it.

I feel so sad that it's over, I really hope there's a spin off.

The Coke ad was definitely Don's. In addition to the young woman with the beribboned plaits, the real ad was created by the real McCann Erickson. It was a brilliant ending.

It was brilliant. Agree was definitely Don's ad. He was obsessed with advertising there's no way he going leave for good. It made it easier that this was the end, knowing he went back. Cried when he spoke to Peggy. Pissed off about Betty, she was finally happy and on the way to fulfilment and it was just cut short but I suppose that's life too. Loved Pete and Peggy saying goodbye too, that made me blub.

on the way to fulfilment and it was just cut short but I suppose that's life too

I was thinking about this yesterday. I have lost two close friends to cancer in the last few years, both in their forties when they died. It is very realistic that someone, especially during the 1960s-early 1970s, of that large group of characters, would have died of cancer

Do you think the writer started from the end and worked backwards?

The creator, Matthew Weiner said he knew from the end of Season 4 how he wanted the series to end in terms of Don and Betty's stories but not the others. I think he didn't start from the end because he would not know how many series would be commissioned at the outset.