Oh and Meredith is an excellent secretary.

I love Peggy so much.

I would definitely watch another season of the SCDP trying to fit in at McCann, It's also starting to hit me that this show is really ending and it sucks.

Ugh, and episode four could have been the season premier and we would have had six episodes of SCDP fitting in at McCann. Gross

I thought it was made pretty clear in this episode that most of SCDP isn't going to be at McCann much longer. It certainly doesn't look like Don Draper will last there. Joan's out. Sterling isn't likely to last. Peggy's probably going to get [censored] on. Pete, Harry, and Ted Chaough doesn't sound like much of a show.

I'm not sure that Peggy is going to get **** on, I took her scene as a realization of how she needs to act in order to get the respect that she wants and deserves. We've seen her change her attitude and style just to make it into the all boys club - smoking weed, cutting her hair and showing up at a strip club, and so on - I think she will be just fine.

I agree about the rest though.

Is Don the least interesting character on the show? The sad ugly waitress thread makes no sense at all. Seems like an odd time for his arc to fizzle out.

Amazing episode. Loved Ted smiling as Don walks out of the room.

Peggy and Roger scene also amazing.

I mean, maybe? She won't be harrassed like Joan but odds are she'll be thought of as weird, and she has career aspirations that may fall by the wayside if she doesn't do well at McCann. It's clear that women work there, but not 'women's libbers'

How does it 'make no sense at all'? She's someone who's running. Don Draper has always been running, and he's basically dated stable women his whole life. Maybe not stable emotionally, but stable in their identity, women unlike himself in this respect. He finally found someone like himself, who knows what it's like to feel how he feels. Everything else in his life is turning to garbage - he's not needed at work, he's not needed in his children's lives, but he feels like this woman needs him. And indeed, now that she's gone, he's more useful as a guy who picks up hitchhikers than anything else he could be doing at present. Peggy once described him as 'having everything... and so much of it', but he's being reduced to nothing.

Loved the episode. When Don pulled over to take a piss it cut to Roger pouring a bottle into a cup waist high. I chuckled

Speculation on Don's ultimate fate...

I'm wondering if it might wrap up just seeing all of our characters getting run right the **** out of town, leaving Sterling, Cooper, and Draper as an afterthought in the advertising world that keeps chugging along. Just something that once was. Which will be our story. Our characters finally ran into the big boys and got chewed the **** up and spit out. Maybe even financially too.

Don, Roger, Joan, Peggy....done.

Pete probably blends right in and has a fine future. Which would make sense with him fading into background now.

Joan's character is strange. Whenever she gets mad, she's usually in the right on the issue, that is what's making her mad is something that legitimately should make someone mad, however the way she reacts to it and handles things always makes her seem really unlikeable or unwise. She's sort of always had a chip on her shoulder to a degree. It's like being in the right isn't enough in the real world, you need people skills and politicking.

Don is going to come back in the finale and blow everyone away with a pitch for Milwaukee Beer that he dreamed up on his research tour of the Beer Belt.

I want to see Don go all Ari Gold with a paint gun.

This show is just so great.

It's amazing that past the setting and the industry they work in, I couldn't really provide someone a synopsis of "What is Mad Men about?" but they just do such a great job of having every episode contain interesting parallels between storylines, choices, conflicts, involving different characters.

I think one of my favorite scenes in this season was with Peggy and Joan in the elevator. Where they were each jealous of what the other person had, and they couldn't look past their jealousy of the other person's gifts to realize their own.

Also don't forget about about that Conrad Hilton shout out last episode. Very unlikely we see him again but I would love to see his crazy cowboy ass again

I'm sad this show is ending.

To echo others, god I'm going to miss this show. Top 3 of all time for me.

I like the subtle bash at the corporatization of America that began around the same timeframe. As lucrative as the old firm was, it was still basically a mom and pop where everyone knew your name. Now it is gobbled up by the big corporate giant and guys in wheelchairs are being asked to play golf because they ate just faceless clients now.

Peggy and Roger were great. Loved the walk at the end. Also liked the McCann chief telling Joan to GTFO. Don's being Don.

Sad and excited to see how this will end

Let's get some action in this thread. Mad has always had awesome music as evident by space oddity closing last ep. Wiener paid a couple mil for the Beatles is season 5 to close an episode. We have had Dylan etc. so, what is the closing song of the last episode??? I wanna hear some thoughts. You know it's going be thoughtful I just can't decide which way it goes.

Barber's Adagio For Strings as Don jumps out the 25th story window and falls to his death, landing on a bus stop shelter containing a VW ad.

Nah, I really have no idea, my guess is that it won't be something that's already iconic, but who knows.

No music has to be on the board

Yea, I was going to say a decent chance of no music at all, or the theme song.

It obviously depends a lot on the style of ending.