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If you’re obsessed with Mad Men, then this news is going to perplex you or please you. Creator Matthew Weiner is starting to discuss how he expects the show to end. ”It came to me in the middle of last season. I always felt like it would be the experience of human life. And human life has a destination. It doesn’t mean Don’s gonna die. What I’m looking for, and how I hope to end the show, is like … It’s 2011. Don Draper would be 84 right now. I want to leave the show in a place where you have an idea of what it meant and how it’s related to you. It’s a very tall order, but I always talk about Abbey Road. 
What’s the song at the end of Abbey Road? It’s called ‘The End.’ There is a culmination of an experience of people working at their highest level. And all I want to do is not wear out the welcome. I was 35 when I wrote the Mad Men pilot, 42 when I got to make it, and I’ll be 50 when it goes off the air. So that’s what you’re gonna get. Do I know everything that’s gonna happen? No, I don’t. But I just want it to be entertaining, and I want people to remember it fondly and not think it ended in a fart.”
Matt Weiner Is Plotting How ‘Mad Men’ Ends
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Mad Men is a beautiful show with the most immaculate writing, set design and clothes on tv.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don’t pull a “The Sopranos” ending! And not a “Survivors” ending either. Don’t let it be lame. And please don’t show contempt for your audiences either, like the writer/producers of these shows did with their finales. Go out classy, with a full story, and do not negate all the past seasons, characters, major events, etc. Wind things up with, okay, here I’m going to use That word… ‘closure’.
Is that too much to ask, Matt?
PS I’d sure love for your to bring back Robert Morse!!
As a former LOST fan (and by former I mean pre-final few episodes/finale) I am pleased to know the creator of a serialized show is actually contemplating its ending, no matter how unique or complex it sounds like it will be. Mad Men is a brilliant show and I look forward to a thoughtful ending because that’s what it and and we loyal viewers deserve.
So, I guess Don Draper doesn’t die from heart disease, lung cancer, cirrhosis, AIDS, etc.
Totally realistic for DD to live healthy into his 80s after decades of punishment by booze and cigs.
Thank God Matt Weiner has a better imagination than you do.
Wouldn’t be the first time that’s happened to someone.
aaa – you are sad and dumb. Ever hear of George Burns?
It’s an interesting idea to see someone near the end of their life and the journey that made people the way they are at the end of their life — or in this case all the good and bad that Dan/Dick did along the way to make him the man he’ll be at the end.
My father definitely a man of the 1950s with all the drinking and smoking that entailed lived to be a healthy 92 1/2 years old. Not unrealistic at all.
Aaa – you sound like such a joy. I also love that you want to bring your special brand of boredom to fictional television characters. Please go back to writing letters to sponsors because of content that offends you in the media.
Twenty years would be a very long time to be in the ad game at that time. There was so much change in the industry and those post WWII guys didn’t adapt well unless they were in part time senior executive board level roles. Would Don be one of those guys? Big decisions for Mr Weiner.
I feel like I’m going to be 84 by the time the next season finally airs.
Who cares? This show was brilliant in season 1, then jumped the shark as its creator fell further in love with himself and his “vision,” playing out the details of his professional life in the press. Take a page out of your former colleague Terence Winter’s play book. Shut up and just tell great stories.
Actually, Matt – the last song on “Abbey Road” is “Her Majesty.”
Ending the series with Don at the age 84 would be poignant. Do something similar to Michael Corleone dying old, and alone at the end of Godfather III. Or….you can have one of the characters “go postal” and mow down all the others with a tommy gun. Just sayin’…
Sounds like Michael Corleone keeling over in his chair at the end of The Godfather, Part III.
I don’t really care how Mad Men ends. I just hope it does. I have never seen a show get more hype for less entertainment. It’s painfully slow, only occasionally funny, and despite the ironic distance from its time period, it doesn’t seem to be about anything other than people drank a lot at work and isn’t Don Draper handsome.
So the existence of this show really puts you out, huh?
Then don’t watch it.
Matt, MAD MEN is great, but you are not a John Lennon. It is a TV show (on AMC!) with wonderful set design and wardrobe. Lighten up.
As far as the smoking and health issues, if Don makes it to 2011, he most likely would have given up smoking in the 1980′s when many people of his generation and income level quit.
I recall, when I first started working in the mid 80′s , many high level people smoked. By 1990 or so, no one did anymore as office’s all became smoke free.
Why are we getting spoilers? Imagine if we knew some of the twists from season one via media interviews…as a fan of the show, this disappoints.
Well, that’s good news for folks of color.
From 35 to 50. Wow.
Matthew Weiner has gifted me with brilliant writing and entertaining stories. Mad Men is an aural and visual treat I’ll recall fondly well into my later years. Due to the abundant subtext in the writing, I have so enjoyed re-watching the seasons on Bluray. I’ll be sad when the series ends but what a ride it’s been thus far. Thank you Matthew Weiner for creating a work of art.
Nice analogy but I’m pretty sure ‘Her Majesty’ is the song at the end of Abbey Road.
Name me one show that’s better than Mad Men on broadcast tv. You can’t.
BREAKING BAD
Wow so that means in the last 3 season we r gonna cover 40+ years of their lives n storylines? Lotta time jumps there. Id hate for there to just all of a sudden be one huge 30 year jump to present day.
I don’t think that’s what he’s saying. The show will probably “end” in 1969 or ’70 (keeping it a ’60s series) with one last time jump to their latter years.
It’s bizarre if this recently “just” came to him. I’ve always assumed — since the first season’s first big time-jump — that the series WOULD end at a point in the future, at a time where the world is very different (I’d imagined the ’80s), briefly showing each of the (living) characters many years older.
Peggy would of course be some big, bitch-on-wheels ad magnate who’s well-respected throughout the ad industry.
It will probably end with DD waiting to see the next season of HIS favorite series with his agency’s ads or products placed in the story and the contract negotiations just drag on and on and on for months and months and years……and they Don dies of boredom and alcoholism.