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Don attempts to return to his advertising agency after being put on indefinite leave following a meltdown in the middle of a client meeting. Eventually, his status at the firm becomes the focus of a bitter power struggle between Roger and Jim, both of whom want to take Sterling Cooper & Partners in radically different directions. The highly anticipated series conclusion will, for the last time, follow the complex lives of Don, Peggy, Roger, Joan, Betty and Pete as their stories come to an end. It's the End of an Era.
A death, a song and dance number and a sale; must be a season-ending episode of Mad Men... Love how Don's marriage ended in a hushed sigh as they both just gave up; meanwhile Peggy and Sally become even closer copies of Don. How can we wait until 2015?
Mad Men has delivered an episode that, largely due to the weight of its closing moments, could easily have served as an incredibly satisfying end to the series itself.
Just because Don is trying to be a better man, and taken "one small step," doesn't mean the rest of his world has caught up with him. Repercussions of his past continue to dog him. Will he continue to try, or slip and slide backward?
The achievement of "Waterloo" is in some ways more impressive, because the show has given us this exact episode two times previously and yet managed to do one that was more exciting and emotionally satisfying than the ones before.
Bert's been around, he's had a good life and he got a great sendoff. Megan, to be honest, we knew back at Howard Johnson's that was never going to work. But losing Julio, well, that's going to take some adjusting.
On its surface, "Waterloo" is a feel-good episode -- Bert's passing notwithstanding... But it's called "Waterloo," and Bert's warning could reverberate during the second half of the season, which won't arrive until 2015.
Say what you will about the episode's ending -- bizarre and out of place, or comical and uplifting -- but if there's one thing Mad Men never fails to deliver, it's a shocking season finale.
Matthew Weiner -- who directed and co-wrote last night's mid-season finale with Carly Wray -- gave us plenty to chew on in an immensely satisfying and oddly optimistic stopping point with the men in a panic and the women in calm control.