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I want to see characters future lives and what happens to them.

I don't think Don will kill himself.

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I think we're simply going to see him leave the agency and go do something he wants to do.

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I think we're simply going to see him leave the agency and go do something he wants to do.

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What does he want to do? I think his job is the only thing that actually makes him happy and gives him some kind of fulfillment.

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I think we're simply going to see him leave the agency and go do something he wants to do.

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What does he want to do? I think his job is the only thing that actually makes him happy and gives him some kind of fulfillment.

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I don't know. I think we may find out with the source material over the next 3 episodes.

Maybe he'll go buy Anna's old house in California and spend his days restoring old cars. Seemed to be when he was his happiest among the entire series.

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Maybe he'll go buy Anna's old house in California and spend his days restoring old cars. Seemed to be when he was his happiest among the entire series.

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Like many here, I don't expect the finality many fans will want. I feel like right now we are seeing Don bottom out once again, and ultimately it will seem he is making progress to becoming a better man. However, I think we will see something similar to the end of season (don't recall the #) where he walks to the bar and asks if he can buy someone a drink. We will then be left to decide for ourselves if he ends up happy or repeating the miserable cycle he has been on for 7 straight seasons.

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zubi zubi EW is more like it.

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These seven episodes appear to be an extended epilogue. This makes sense - the series has been about the 60's and now we're in the 70's. This is the aftermath. The entire Greek chorus is finally chiming in on Don's decisions, with some effect.

Plus, Weiner is gradually and quietly giving every character's storyline an ending. To me, it feels like the ending to the Sandlot so far where you get a wistful line or two about how all their lives ended up.

• Kenny got fired from SC&P, but went on to be head of advertising at Dow. He still writes occasionally and enjoyed being a thorn in Pete's side for years.
• Rachel finally settled down and had kids. She died from leukemia at a young age.
• Megan lived a comfortable life due to the divorce settlement from Don, but she never got that breakthrough role she wanted, and always felt like she had somehow missed the boat.
• Betty finally decided to stop being just a trophy wife and went back to school for her master's degree in psychology. She now does counseling for mothers and women in weight loss programs.
• Glen couldn't live up to his father's academic expectations, so he joined the army. He was killed in Vietnam in 1971.
• Joan married a rich real estate developer from LA. Her mother gladly takes care of Aaron for the few weeks a year she and Richard travel the world.

Some of that is speculation of course, but I could see it ending up that way. Characters we have left are: Sally, Pete, Roger, Peggy, and of course Don will be last. They really are putting a nice little bow on everyone's story.

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This was a good refresher on where Don/Dick started.

The Dick Whitman Chronicles v1.1

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"We've done it before," Don reminds the others and one of those times was specifically to stay out of Jim Hobart's clutches and as the old team puts their heads together for one last caper, it sure seems like they're going to pull it off again.

But they don't because they can't. Hobart made up his mind long before they had the first inkling this was their future, and there isn't another Houdini act in their immediate future.

It is, in fact, an episode loaded with characters trying to repeat old patterns, or simply being reminded of them, only to learn that their fate was decided too far in the past to change now. Pete and Trudy can't get Tammy into the private school they want because of a grudge Pete's ancestors had back in the old country with the headmaster's clan. Ken won't sign on for the tentative Sterling Cooper West plan because he holds too many grudges against Roger and McCann (just like Ferg Donnelly fired him for leaving them years before). And while Peggy's romantic history with Pete encourages him to tip her off about the big changes coming, she's again forced to reckon with the decision to not be a mother to their son.

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"The king ordered it!" is one of the greatest lines of dialogue in the history of the show. The latter half of that convo came out of no where, and was absolutely glorious.

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• 1902: Alfred Erickson forms his own advertising agency in New York City.
• 1912: Harrison King McCann, along with four partners, launches H.K. McCann Co, and introduces the credo "Truth Well Told".
• 1927: McCann opens offices in Paris, Berlin and London.
• 1930: McCann and Erickson merge companies.
• 1935: Latin American offices open in Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.
• 1957: McCann became the first U.S. advertising agency to bill $100 million in TV and radio sales.
• 1959: Australian office opens, as well as European offices in Italy, Netherlands and Switzerland.
• 1960: The company is organised into four independent operating units reporting into McCann Erickson, Inc. (later to become the Interpublic Group in 1961). Office opens in Japan.
• 1964: The Spanish government of Francisco Franco hires the agency to improve its image in the United States.[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCann_Erickson#cite_note-6][6][/url]
• 1973: McCann International and McCann US reunite into the single agency McCann Erickson Worldwide.
• 1997: McCann Worldgroup formed, includes: McCann Erickson Worldwide, Universal McCann and what would become MRM//McCann, Momentum, McCann Healthcare Worldwide, Weber Shandwick and FutureBrand.