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Little Nell Is Dead, But Don Draper's Gone Hippie

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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor

There's nothing new. We are told that when Chapter 71 of 'The Old Curiosity Shop' arrived by ship in Boston harbour, a huge crowd was waiting. They shouted, 'Is Little Nell dead?' When the captain shouted back that yes, the fictional character had gone to meet her maker (aka Charles Dickens, and she probably had a few choice words for him about his script), the crowd groaned in agony.

That was in 1841.

Last night, the last installment of AMC's 'Mad Men' aired in the US. People live-tweeted that they were in tears. Farewells, love scenes, fraught phone calls...the eight-year journey of the people from Sterling Cooper Draper Price at last reached its triumphant end with perhaps the most memorable advertising jingle of them all:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2msbfN81Gm0

Is that what came out when the ad man finally chanted 'Om....mane padme om...'?

Charles Dickens had it easy. There was no way the newspapers would have cancelled his serialised novel, no matter what the ratings were. But Matthew Weiner has weathered the vagaries of changing tastes and network finances, the demand for 'teasers' that reveal too much, onslaughts of fan ideas, fan fiction, and Mad Men theme parties. But he's taken his vision all the way home. To California, as we suspected.

Respect.

Now go out and enjoy all the outraged, tearful, and amused commentary on the internet today.

And maybe read about that Coke ad, which was dreamed up by a man from McCann-Erickson (the bad guys in 'Mad Men') while on a layover in Ireland. All that green landscape must make ad men think cheerful thoughts.

http://time.com/3882313/mad-men-finale-coke-ad/

smiley - dragon


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