For fans of "Mad Men," it will be a bittersweet ending when season 7 comes to end. The seventh and last season was split into two parts, similar to what was done with "Breaking Bad." However, it didn't work out that well for AMC and "Mad Men."
The idea behind the splitting of the final season was to attract more viewers to the finale. The other goal was to be recognized by award giving bodies. Unfortunately, there won't be any victory lap for "Mad Men" this season. According to Zap2it, the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Awards didn't give "Mad Men" any nominations at all. It was a complete shut out.
On the other hand, the award shutout shouldn't affect how the show will bid its farewell in the small screen. Show creator Matthew Weiner admits that he is expecting mixed reviews for the finale.
"The road has been paved for a mixed review, no matter what. I do what I've always done on the show and rely on the people around me. The actors, the writers, and my wife all liked it, so that's all I can go on at this point. I hate to say this — obviously ending the entire series is significantly more pressure — but it's been that way every year," he told Esquire.
Weiner also admitted that ending the show gets everyone emotional. He even took a lot of things from the set, he called them "emotional attachments." Some of the things he took were Roger's bar and Don's Clio.
Meanwhile, among all the actors from "Mad Men," there is certainly someone who made a huge impression and it's none other than Jon Hamm. With this popularity now, he has been offered superhero roles, to which he respectfully refused them all. In an interview with Radio Times, Hamm admitted that he thinks of himself as someone old and irrelevant to the younger generation.
He said, "Ask anyone under the age of twenty if they have heard of me and they will go 'no, that guy looks like my dad.'"
"If your last name's not Hemsworth or you are not in One Direction or you don't wear a cape and tights for a living, you literally have a hard time making an impression," he added. "For me to sign on now to do a superhero movie would mean I would be working until I am fifty as that particular superhero."
While Hamm fans surely won't mind seeing him don a costume or cape, they must be contented seeing him in the last season of "Mad Men." It is set to return in spring of 2015.
