Mad Men, Shut the Door. Have a Seat : Reviewing the season finale
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Spoilers for the “Mad Men” season three finale coming up just as soon as I clean the carpets…
“How long do you think it’ll take us to be in a place like this again?” -Roger
“I never saw myself working in a place like this.” -Don
For much of this season, we wondered exactly when the show would get around to dealing with the Kennedy assassination – whether Matt Weiner would wait till the finale, or get to it ahead of that. He took the latter approach, and many of us assumed it was because he was following the “Sopranos”/”Wire” model of putting all the big developments in the penultimate episode.
Whoops.
Turns out Weiner put Kennedy into last week’s episode because that wasn’t the season’s biggest development, not by a long shot. (In the grand scheme of the ’60s, Kennedy was huge, but far-removed from the world of Sterling Cooper.) Instead, he had to get that out of the way so he could use the finale to deal with more pertinent matters for our characters: Betty divorcing herself from Don, and Don, Roger, and Bert finding a brilliant way to divorce themselves from PPL.
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