Hello, folks. Welp, here we are at the beginning of the end. Season 7 is 14 total episodes, but it will be presented in two parts. Part I, which starts tonight is aptly called “The Beginning” and Part II (which we have to wait until 2015 for, ugh) is called “The End of an Era.”
Spoilers after the jump.
I read an interview with series creator Matthew Wiener on amctv.com late last week and this part stuck out to me:
Q: What else can you tell us about Season 7?
A: Last season to me was about anxiety and about the world being in revolution and telling the story of someone whose anxiety was overwhelming them because they could not maintain their façade anymore. The United States could not maintain its façade, and Don could not maintain his façade… I was showing that the culture was like Don. It was carnal, it was anxious, it was having a huge self-confidence problem… And now I want to look at the material and immaterial world. Things that are of this world — ambition, success, money, and time to some degree — and the contrast of what we can’t see, the spiritual, the internal life… When your needs are met, when you have a roof over your head, things that Don Draper doesn’t take for granted because of where he’s from, and at a certain point those needs are met, what else is there?
That put things about last season in a little bit of perspective. Last we left off, our friends at Sterling Cooper & Partners were fighting over who gets to go to California, even though at the beginning of the season 6 finale, you would have thought it was a death sentence. Interestingly enough, tonight’s episode is called “Time Zones.”
See you in the comments!
