I don’t have time for this, but I wanted to get my bet down on paper so I can bask in the glory — or ignominy — come Sunday night.
1. Don Draper is a coward. Whenever things don’t go his way, he tries to run away.
2. This season, he has played tentatively with the idea of making a real, adult commitment to his made-up life, but, even then, he has successfully run away, again and again, from his own redemption.
3. This most recent episode, “Blowing Smoke,” shows Don actually making a commitment — to the ad agency, to his relationship with Faye and to Peter Campbell.
4. All of this will fail.
5. When it does, Don will make the flying exit foretold episode after episode in the opening credits.
6. This will be the end of the series.
Tune in to AMC Sunday night to see if I’m right.
Scott Gaertner says:
You gotta have more faith in the human spirt in general and Don the Draper specifically. He’ll pull it out. (But it wont be until next season. They gotta hook us)
October 12, 2010 — 5:22 pm
Greg Swann says:
How did The Sopranos end?
October 12, 2010 — 8:29 pm
Ryan Hartman says:
Always time for the best show on tv….
Would be a cool way to end it, but too soon… what else does amc have?
Instead, this year ends happy with Don all grown up and the agency seeing some light after the newspaper stunt… Maybe next season he’s the advertising Donfather pulling more stunts like he did with Honda…
October 13, 2010 — 5:30 am
Mario Jannatpour says:
You are completely off base on this one.
Don’s gambit will work and he will hook a big fish in the next episode.
Next year the show will be about how they all handle the big sucess of their Agency since this year has been so tough for them. A contrast.
October 13, 2010 — 8:20 am
Greg Swann says:
Well. At least I was wrong about everything.
October 17, 2010 — 8:04 pm
Greg Swann says:
Essentially the same ending as last season: While giving the appearance of a sincere commitment to a new life, Don Draper is just running that much harder from the last new life, now in ruins. The song at the end was inspired: “I got you, babe” was the song heard every morning on the radio in Groundhog Day. Don is doomed to live the same disasters over and over again. That easily could have been the series finale, just as the last episode of last season could have been. Will there be a fifth season? Perhaps, but there need not be, and nothing can ever change in the self-incarcerated soul of Dick Whitman in any case.
October 17, 2010 — 8:14 pm