re: Mad Men Series Finale - "Person to Person"

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I would definitely like to think that this is how it ended and after seeing the slight smile on Don's face as it cut to the Coke commercial, I agree that this is a logical conclusion. Peggy will eventually get her Creative Director position but as Pete pointed out, it will probably happen closer to 1980, not 1971 when the Coke commercial was produced.

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Jon Hamm said in an interview that I read this morning not to overthink it because he and Weiner didn't really consider it all that ambiguous. He said Weiner had planned it for as long as he can remember and intentionally went about foreshadowing it at several points this season--Hobart offering him Coke and Don acting like it wa the Holy grail (in the meeting where Jim has him say "Don Draper of McCann for the first/only time). Then him having to deal with the Coke Machine at the Inn in the last episode. The smile was Don realizing after his great search for self and meaning in his life, he was, in fact, just an ad man preying on the needs of others to fill their lives with stuff that he tells them they need for just that purpose. The smile was him being ok with that. It was flawless to me.