EPISODE
SEASON
Mad Men - Season 7
Don attempts to return to his advertising agency after being put on indefinite leave following a meltdown in the middle of a client meeting. Eventually, his status at the firm becomes the focus of a bitter power struggle between Roger and Jim, both of whom want to take Sterling Cooper & Partners in radically different directions. The highly anticipated series conclusion will, for the last time, follow the complex lives of Don, Peggy, Roger, Joan, Betty and Pete as their stories come to an end. It's the End of an Era.
30 May 1981, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
4 April 1980, King George, Virginia, USA
1965, Grants Pass, Oregon, USA
12 April 1984, Melbourne, Florida, USA
4 July 1945, Reinbeck, Iowa, USA
22 July 1963, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
7 July 1968, Detroit, Michigan, USA
3 November 1983, Denver, Colorado, USA
21 June 1965, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 August 1960, Brooklyn, New York, USA
14 January 1970, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
April 14, 2014
The equivalence of Don and Freddy is actually far more pronounced than previously imagined.
April 11, 2014
It's the fetishizing of the visual, not lack of action, that leaves me impatient. But for now, we're on a plane and Weiner's in the cockpit... I don't know where we're going and neither do you. Might as well sit back and enjoy what's left of the ride.
April 14, 2014
On a show all about advertising and projecting a certain image, it's very entertaining when the show can actually play with the idea of how the media can sell us something.
April 14, 2014
Gone are the days of "Zou Bisou Bisou" and Don's Hawaiian mortality freak-out. Nope. This season premiere, all we got was a cold pastrami sandwich with coleslaw smeared on the bread.
April 14, 2014
I was tickled by a surprise twist near the end of the episode that sets up some delicious skulduggery to come.
April 10, 2014
Mad Men is beautifully shot as always, with the dialogue flowing naturally and meaningfully over alcohol... The pace hasn't quickened. Nor does the storyline congeal. Instead, Sunday's re-opener builds to a terrifically poignant finish.
April 15, 2014
The hour delivers a series of lovely closing scenes that find Don feeling more honest intimacy than he has felt since the death of Anna, culminating in the kind of image and song choice that Mad Men fans find so powerful and moving.
April 15, 2014
There are peaks and valleys, but mostly there's a lot of flat, ugly middle. The victories that you spend forever building end up being as ephemeral as fireworks, sparkling briefly before quickly fading back into the endless blackness of the nighttime sky.
April 14, 2014
We won't be able to fully appreciate it from moment to moment, because we're so eager to learn what's coming next, to get to whatever the future holds. But that future is a world without Mad Men, so let's not get there too fast.
April 08, 2014
AMC's much-acclaimed Mad Men feels like it's coming out of a pit stop, rechecking gears and reacclimating to the track.
