Mad Men Season 4 Finale




Don Draper pondering his future...calling it off with Faye

Last night the 'Mad Men' season 4 finale, 'Tomorrowland', capped the best season of 'Mad Men' yet. If season 4 was about change, adaptation and coming to terms then season 5 will be about the journey that follows.

I will leave the dissection of last night's episode to others, but there are a few stand-out scenes for me as follows:

• Don introduces Sally and Bobby to Stephanie and tells them that his 'nickname' is Dick. I only wish that this had taken place when Anna was still alive.
• Don referring to Megan as Maria Von Trapp (The Sound of Music is my favourite movie, and celebrating its 45th anniversary this year :)
• Joan and Peggy commisserating about the men and the women they choose to share their lives. Priceless and so true.
• Joan revealing that she did not have an abortion and that she will have Roger's lovechild.
• Betty setting it up so she would meet Don at what was their marital home before it's sold. She pretending to have forgotten some items in the guest bathroom; he retrieving a hidden bottle of Canadian Club whiskey. Sharing a drink and Don telling Betty that he is engaged. The pained look on Betty's face, her trying to be mature and adult about the situation, congratulating him reluctantly...Don saw her struggle and tried to make it easier for her. The shot of them literally parting ways leaving the bottle and cup on the counter-leaving behind memories both bad & good, and the life they shared...at least in that house.

Matthew Weiner and his staff of writers are some of the most talented people in Hollywood. The lives of the characters are in good hands and I can't wait for season 5, is it July 2011 yet?!