It’s the last season, and I’m really sad about it.
I started watching the show late—it was already a couple of
seasons in by that time. During the big snow storm of 2010, my husband and I
binge-watched episode after episode. We were both thoroughly hooked. There was just something so original, creative, and intriguing about the set, the characters, the dialogue, and the story.
Although I'm a child of a later decade, I’ve become a little
obsessed with the 60’s (especially the early years of that decade). I love the
clothes, the décor, the seeming “innocence” of that time (although Madmen
suggests things weren’t quite so innocent as one would think).
I also connect the show with my grandfather. A dedicated
businessman, he wore a hat to and from work every day, he had a wet bar in his
office, and he was the king
of the mid-day cocktail. He wouldn’t have approved of the show, but there are
elements of the business end of things that undoubtedly and fondly remind me of
him.
It’s been so much fun watching the ten-year development and
progression of Betty, Peggy, Joan, and Megan as they come into their own and
learn to navigate the man’s world (sometimes not so successfully). It’s also
been fascinating to observe and analyze the static, unchanging Don Draper.
All around
him the world is changing and sideburns are growing, but he remains exactly the same. All the while his fall from grace continues. Where is the bottom? How will it all end? That’s all up to the
creator, Matthew Weiner and his vision for these wild and wonderful
characters.
