Seven seasons and 92 episodes.
That’s the run for AMC’s first original series, Mad Men.
More than the shows, the seasons, and the epoch for AMC; the series struck lighting and sparked fire, quickly becoming a cultural phenomena.
Though filled with a wealth of interesting and well-portrayed characters, the show has remained a tale of twos.
The dichotomy that is the lead male role and the shows protagonist, Don Draper…born as Dick Whitman.
He destroyed his marriage, scandalized his child, took a dead man’s identity, and made a name for it as an advertiser…which in reflection means nothing to the man.
Finally bottoming out with the end of the 60s, which served as the show’s atmosphere, Draper finds himself in California where those from the East with no hopes and dreams run to.
The ambiguity of the finale leads viewers image where he goes to from here.
