Mad Men Season 7 will be making its return to the small screens to wrap up its final season with seven brand-new episodes. The first episode of Mad Men Season 7 will premiere on April 5. The succeeding episodes will conclude the story of Don Draper (John Hamm).
One part of the show that many Mad Men fans would take note of is the chilling opening sequence, which features a man wearing a suit (most likely Don) falling to the ground. Fans of the series have long suspected that the falling man wearing a suit would be a foreshadowing of Don's fate: death. Mad Men Season 7 spoilers also have said that Don might die due to a brain tumor.
Mad Men Season 7 Finale will draw focus on the main six characters, namely: Don, Betty, Peggy, Peter, Joan, and Roger.
"The shows became so much more concentrated on these characters," said show creator Matthew Weiner, . "There's no room for digression. We really have to, in a first-season way, focus on these people. The last seven episodes, I would say each one of them feel like the finale of the show."
As to the ending of the series, fans of Mad Men can count on one thing: the end will come as somewhat of a shock. "It was surprising to the end," said actor John Slattery, who plays Roger Sterling in the show. "It's been surprising the whole time."
It has also been hinted according to Mad Men Season 7 Spoilers that Don's ex-wife, Betty Francis will turn into somewhat of a feminist activist.
"You'll have to see what happens with her. I can't speak to what the audience thinks, I can only speak to what we're trying to do, but I think Betty has grown a lot," said Weiner to The Hollywood Reporter. "We see her behave the way she behaves -- but that conversation with her and Henry where she disagrees with him in public, that's not about Betty being obnoxious. That's about the fact that a woman was not allowed to publicly disagree with her husband. And that's gratefully a relic of the past, though I know it still functions in many relationships. But I feel like Betty reached a frustration point that's almost political to me. She's tired of being told to shut up. That's gross, if you look at the woman who said to Helen Bishop, "I don't know who we're voting for."
It seems like Don's fate has already been sealed in the first half of Mad Men Season 7 when Bert Cooper had a vision. Would this allude to the hard-drinking executive with a shady past succumbing to brain tumor?
Be sure to catch Mad Men Season 7 on Sunday at AMC.
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