The first half of the final season of “Mad Men” is winding
down, and longtime fans are obsessed with how the show’s final seven episodes
will play out. Will Don Draper (Jon Hamm) jump to his death from a New York
skyscraper a la the show’s opening credits? Will Roger Sterling quit the hippie
chicks and finally settle down with his baby mama, Joan? Will Peggy take over
the world?
We’ve done some digging, so here’s a checklist of five ways
‘Mad Men” probably won’t end.
Don and Betty will reunite and live happily ever after
While Don Draper’s marriage to second wife Megan (Jessica
Pare) is on the rocks, don’t expect him to reconcile with frosty first wife,
Betty (January Jones). That hookup came via a one-nighter at son Bobby’s summer
camp last season. In an interview on AMC’s website,
Jones dished on how much the Betty character has “grown” since she moved on to
second hubby, Henry Francis. But she added, “As an audience member, I always rooted for a Don and Betty reunion
even though it would never work. I just always wanted to see how it would
happen now, and I loved the way it did.” Sounds pretty final to us.
Roger and Joan will
end up together
Fans have been clamoring for it, and doesn’t big-hearted
Joan (Christina Hendricks) deserve a happy ending? Or at least a father figure
for baby Kevin? Actor John Slattery, who plays hard drinking silver fox Roger
Sterling on the AMC series, told HuffPost Live he knows viewers want to see his
character end up with the red-haired bombshell, but he doubts creator Matthew
Weiner will go there: "It isn't to say he's not going to give the audience
what they want, but it's much more interesting to expect one thing and get the
other,” Slattery said. "That's why Matt's as good as he is. Because he
knows what the audience wants -- you know, Joan and Roger -- that's not what
he's necessarily interested in."
Sally Draper will go
to Woodstock
“Mad Men” fans apparently want to see Sally
Draper run off to White Lake, New York for three days of peace and music with
Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. But while Weiner has joked
that the teen daughter of Don Draper will probably end up with a lot of issues (“She's inherited a lot. I predict smoking. I predict
alcoholism,” he said), he later told Rolling Stone the rebellious character won’t be attending the biggest music festival
of the era. "Is Sally going to
go off to Woodstock?” he mused. “You know what, I'm just going to go on record
as saying no. But when she grows up she's going to
tell everybody that she was there."
Megan Draper
will be a victim of the Manson murders
The rumors have been swirling ever since
Megan Draper was spotted wearing a shirt identical to one that slain actress
Sharon Tate once wore in a photo shoot. Now Megan’s moved into a secluded
little house in the canyons amid the howling coyotes, and there have been
Folgers coffee references (Abigail Folger was a victim in the murders) and
“Rosemary’s Baby” readings (the last movie Tate’s husband, Roman Polanksi,
directed before her murder).
But Weiner insists these are not clues that Megan
will end up a Manson casualty: “The
T-shirt she was wearing on the balcony at the end of episode nine was a T-shirt
Sharon Tate wore, so everyone's convinced that this is some secret clue that
Megan's going to be murdered or die or end up in Los Angeles in a house in the
hills,” he said. “And then because Sally was reading ‘Rosemary's Baby’ too,
they thought that was some kind of clue. It's not. It's the end of the '60s.
Honestly, on the cheap, we're trying to tell the story of the disintegration of
the city. That's our way of evoking hard-core decay.”
Don Draper will die
“Mad
Men” has had deathly undertones since its debut, so the death of Don Draper
would almost seem too obvious at this point. The
Daily Beast compiled a list of the show’s incessant death imagery: Unusual airplane images, Don’s reading of
“Dante’s Inferno,” the doorman’s
sudden death, the Zippo lighter (long story if you haven’t watched the show
faithfully), an abundance of orange (a “Godfather” reference) and more. Slate
has even posted a handy dandy Don Draper Death Watch tool.
At
the end of the penultimate season last year, Weiner told the Los Angeles Times, “I don't want to spoil
anything for people, but after [the death of ‘Mad men’ character] Lane … It's
just not part of the show. No one's going to die.” But then he added, “This
season. I didn't say never!”
OK,
so let’s keep that death watch going…
The final seven
episodes of “Mad Men” will air in 2015.
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