This is the final half of the final season of Mad Men. This show has been uneven throughout. Typically the first shows of any season are a bit boring and then it starts to pick up toward the end of the season. That has been the story since about Season 3.

I never got the whole Megan deal so it's good she wasn't in most of this or referred to.

That said, this was a disappointment with regard to Don Draper. Once again, he ran away from what he didn't like and had run ins with bad people, got wasted, hooked up with some better people, got his head clear and that was that.

It didn't make sense to me.

The characters who changed the most for the good in the whole thing are Sally Draper and Pete Campbell. Both ended up in better places as characters even though they both had to face some tough things along the way.

So, in the end Betty, the mother of his three children is dying so what does Don do? He lets Sally, his eldest child, handle it.

Sometimes, along the way, I felt some empathy for Don, but at the end I felt he was as worthless and meaningless as the ads he wrote at the time.

I guess maybe that was intended but it left a kind of weird feeling after investing so much time in a series.

The acting is always superb with this cast, it's the scripts that fail them at times.

Didn't like the ending one bit. I guess we are supposed to infer that Don writes the Coke commercial and makes more money off the habits of American consumers or something.

Meanwhile, Sally does the heavy lifting for him. Believable, I guess, but disappointing.

The endings with regard to Peggy Olsen and Joan seemed contrived and didn't make much sense. Roger seemed to be the one that came the furthest of the main characters, besides Sally.

Sally always seemed to have more sense than any of the adults around her.

I love Sally, but ended up mildly disliking Don. Betty has always been a pill, so her death wasn't devastating, more like an inconvenience to everyone but Henry. That seems weird for a major character, but January Jones played it all flawlessly.

did a great job with the scripts they were given. In the end, I felt like, especially in the last year, they all deserved better with regard to the writing.

You can't not watch this part of the last season if you've watched the rest, but it was a bit of a disappointment to me.

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