Person to Person
- final episode
- mostly focuses on Don, Peggy, and Joan but just about everyone that is still part of the show gets at least a scene or two
- Don is still on the road; after talking to Sally he decides to come home but she wants him to stay away and he respects her demand; he heads to California where he finds Stephanie, the daughter of the real Don Draper; she takes him to a spiritual retreat but then runs off leaving him stranded there; at first he doesn't seem to know what to do but by the end of the episode he seems to have a break through and find some sort of peace at the retreat
- Joan gets bored being out of work, even though she doesn't need to work; after getting approached by Ken Cosgrove, who needs some help with a promotional film, she decides to go back to work; Joan sets up her own production business; this doesn't sit well with Richard, who leaves her once she makes it clear that what she wants is to go back to work; she also reaches out to Peggy to join her as her business partner
- Peggy wants to accept Joan's offer but decides to stay at McCann Erickson; Stan tells her he loves her; not crazy about the suddenness of this ending for Peggy and Stan; we don't know if they live happily ever after but in the absence of evidence to the contrary that seems to be implied
- As beautiful and moving as this episode is I'm a little disappointed that the firm was dismantled never to exist again in the last few episodes; on one level it seems appropriate and on another it is deeply disappointing; it is kind of like the death or end of a dream or an era; it couldn't go on forever and I can accept that but to see it happen on the screen removes some of the luster that I got used to seeing
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