Now airing three days ago in the States, the Mad Men finale has had fans talking ever since with one final scene that some have labelled perfect. One man who hadn't spoken about that scene until this point however was Jon Hamm.
With debate over whether or not Don did return to McCann Erickson and create the iconic Coke advertisement, there's also the matter of if this is a happy or cynical ending.
Speaking to the New York Times, Hamm offered his own insight into the ending and confirms that he sees it as fairly optimistic.
"When we find Don in that place, and this stranger relates this story of not being heard or seen or understood or appreciated, the resonance for Don was total in that moment. There was a void staring at him. We see him in an incredibly vulnerable place, surrounded by strangers, and he reaches out to the only person he can at that moment, and it's this stranger.
"My take is that, the next day, he wakes up in this beautiful place, and has this serene moment of understanding, and realises who he is. And who he is, is an advertising man. And so, this thing comes to him. There's a way to see it in a completely cynical way, and say, 'Wow, that's awful.' But I think that for Don, it represents some kind of understanding and comfort in this incredibly unquiet, uncomfortable life that he has led."
Regarding the audience reaction to the final, he was quick to point out that the show's characters don't stop existing the moment the Coke commercial broadcasted.
"There's people saying, oh, it's so pat, and it's rom-com-y, or whatever it is. But it's not the end of anything. The world doesn't blow up right after the Coke commercial ends. No one is suggesting that Stan and Peggy live happily ever after, or that Joan's business is a rousing success, or that Roger and Marie come back from Paris together. None of it is done. Matt had said at one point, 'I just want my characters to be a little more happy than they were in the beginning,' and I think that's pretty much true. But these aren't the last moments of any of these characters' lives, including Betty. She doesn't have much time left, but damn if she's not going to spend it the way she wants to spend it."
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