I've never loved a TV drama as much as I love AMC's Mad Men. I am heartbroken to see it go, after only 7 seasons. I thought it would live on for at least 10. I guess it just wasn't meant to be. It truly is the end of an era.
This is a show that I came to late in the game. I started watching it on Netflix, and I was instantly hooked. This show has influenced me in so many ways - clothing, hairstyle, home furnishings, and my overall attitude and business mindset. I'll be forever grateful to AMC and Matthew Weiner for giving this show to the us.
The series finale was full of emotional moments. Betty accepts her fate, Sally grows up and prepares to take her mother's place, Peggy finds love with Stan, Roger gets married, Joan starts an exciting business, Pete and Trudy begin a new life together, and Don finds an inner peace that inspires him to create one of the most iconic advertisements in history. I really have no complaints... except one.
WHERE THE HELL WAS MEGAN????
I accept the fact that Don and Megan's marriage was really over. That's fine and dandy. Don needed to be in New York for his family and career, and Megan needed to be in L.A. to chase her dreams. I get it. What I don't get was how that last scene of her leaving their apartment was supposed to be closure.
Don wound up in L.A. in the season finale. I foolishly assumed he would at least bump into Megan and bring some proper ending to her character. She desrved that. I know not everyone liked her, but a lot of us did. I loved the pairing of Don and Megan and I believed it more than any other woman Don was associated with throughout the series. I didn't expect a reunion, but I did hope for a "no hard feelings" moment at the very least.
I played a scene out in my mind where Don finds his inner peace and begins to love and accept himself, which actually happened. However, I did hope for a reunion. I hoped that somehow Don would find Megan, confess his love to her, and reunite - as Mr. and Mrs. Dick Whitman. I envisioned Megan and Don having a happy urban family, raising Don's children together after Betty's passing. I envisioned Don as the world's foremost ad executive under his actual name. I saw Megan, as his loving wife, with a successful New York acting career. I saw Sally growing into the woman her mother never be and Gene and Bobby growing into the man it took their father a lifetime to become.
I really am pleased with the finale - and over the moon about the very last scene. I've been wondering all day how a 44 year old commercial that I've seen a million times could bring tears to my eyes now. I just wanted a little more for Megan.
Megan Calvet Draper, we will miss you.
Zou bisou, bisou, mon chéri.
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