Mad Men Season Seven - Review

By
Susan Giles
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Mad Men Season Seven

The final season of Mad Men was nice, optimistic, and as mouth feeding, as it seemed to be. Through this entire show, we have followed Don Raper, a creative director in one of the most famous advertising companies in Madison Avenue in the 60s.

Over the course of 10 years, we have been behind the scenes of the American Dream being sold on television, we have taken a closer look at how this era and it’s events ruin a man as complicated, smart, and charming as Don Draper. But nothing lasts forever, right?

Everything has changed, the seventh and final season of this brilliant show has taken us to the end of the 1960s and the very beginning of the 70s. Don has left his wife Megan and went back to his old drinking and self-destructive habits for a while to follow his obsessions of this new woman named Diana. He wants to “help” her but fails to find her and the more he loses her, the more he keeps moving away from his life as Don.

Roger plays around with his drug-using habits but then pulls himself together and actually starts leading the company once again. Oh, and Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce becomes SC&P without the D! In the first part of this season, we saw Don trying to get back to the company he once started.

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Peggy is not a partner but the head of the creative team, and even though she broke down a little bit over Ted, she managed to get back on track and became the woman she always fought hard to become. We see how far she has gotten from the way she deals with Don and how she handles the awkwardness of their interactions at work.

Pete Campbell and Peggy both move up with their careers and towards more stable relationships with people they have known their whole lives, which gives us closure and gives their storylines happy endings.

Roger makes sure he secures Joan’s child with enough money for when he is gone, and Joan starts her own company after a big fight with Mecan. Yes, the company was being bought by another bigger company again, but with the season-ending, maybe we know that this is a change that will last for a while.

Towards the end of the season, we get the smart ending we all hoped for by Don leaving again to try and find some other purpose in his life. Getting lost in people and the power of peace and love, Don doesn’t return but somehow still gives us a beautiful Coca Cola ad. This season is powerful and provides us with the perfect ending to one of the best TV shows ever created in the history of television.