“Mad Men” Comes to an End Sunday Night

Doug Hyun/AMC(NEW YORK) — After seven seasons, the drama that fascinated viewers with its exploration of the advertising industry in the 1960s and early 1970s comes to an end on Sunday night.

The Mad Men series finale will air on AMC at 10 p.m. Eastern time. Several of the characters are at a crossroads going into the episode, after they were absorbed by McCann Erickson. For example, Don Draper, played by Jon Hamm, abruptly left a work meeting and has been out West since.

What will the finale have in store for Don? Alan Sepinwall, a TV critic for HitFix, suspects Don may undergo a “massive personal reinvention,” which could include him reverting back to his old identity, Dick Whitman.

Sepinwall tells ABC Radio, “We definitely know he’s not going back to advertising, there have been a lot of hints lately reminding us that Don is really mechanically inclined.”

“I’m looking forward to whatever it winds up being because Matt Weiner tends to end the seasons well, and I’m not expecting the last one to be any different,” Sepinwall adds.

Sepinwall does not expect Weiner, the creator of Mad Men, to wrap up his show with a vague final scene, a la The Sopranos with its fade-to-black ending. Weiner, incidentally, was a writer for The Sopranos.

Weiner says he felt the emotional weight of the Mad Men finale after filming had been completed. He recalls to ABC Radio how tough it was when he moved out of his office, because “everybody was gone and going through everything and walking out of this room where I had written most of it and slept and lived to some degree.”


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