BY David Hinckley
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'Mad Men' creator Matthew Weiner says final season will have major characters facing consequences of their actions
'There are shadows over this season that go back to the first time we met' top Mad Man Don Draper, says Weiner.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, April 13, 2014, 2:00 AM
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<article data-streamid="7.2096455" data-streamtags="["NYDN.Entertainment.d","NYDN.Entertainment.TV_Movies.d"]" itemprop="articleBody"> <figure class="a-image h"> <img alt="Jon Hamm as Don Draper - Mad Men _ Season 7, Episode 1 - Photo Credit: Michael Yarish/AMCSENDER: �Hinckley, David� <DHinckley@nydailynews.com>SUBJECT: Jon Hamm, Mad Men, AMC, 2014 Your message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:cb0ec915-66df-f2ba-837a-67cf42886eb2_MM_701_MY_1107_0686Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled." src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1748680.1396903436%21/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/vuecover13tvf-9-web.jpg"> Michael Yarish/AMC Jon Hamm as Don Draper, the Madison Avenue genius whose personal life is "in a bad place," says creator Matthew Weiner. </figure>
At the end of the 1960s, the R&B band Chairmen of the Board released a song whose lyrics went, in part, “If you dance to the music, don’t you know, you’ve got to pay to the piper.”
As Matthew Weiner prepares to wrap up his AMC hit “Mad Men,” also right around the end of the 1960s, he’s thinking the same thing for lead Mad Man Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and all his colleagues.
“This season is about consequences,” says Weiner, the creator and head writer of “Mad Men.” “We don’t just throw stuff away after it has happened. There are shadows over this season that go back to the first time we met Don.”
Back then, early in the show, Don was by all appearances the American success story. He was a rainmaker on Madison Avenue, an advertising genius. He seemed to have the perfect wife in ex-model Betty (January Jones), with two clean-cut kids.
Entering season seven, which starts Sunday night at 10 and will be divided into one seven-episode run this year and another seven-episode run in 2015, Don’s sparkling meadow looks more like quicksand.
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'Mad Men' creator Matthew Weiner says final season will have major characters facing consequences of their actions
'There are shadows over this season that go back to the first time we met' top Mad Man Don Draper, says Weiner.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Sunday, April 13, 2014, 2:00 AM
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<article data-streamid="7.2096455" data-streamtags="["NYDN.Entertainment.d","NYDN.Entertainment.TV_Movies.d"]" itemprop="articleBody"> <figure class="a-image h"> <img alt="Jon Hamm as Don Draper - Mad Men _ Season 7, Episode 1 - Photo Credit: Michael Yarish/AMCSENDER: �Hinckley, David� <DHinckley@nydailynews.com>SUBJECT: Jon Hamm, Mad Men, AMC, 2014 Your message is ready to be sent with the following file or link attachments:cb0ec915-66df-f2ba-837a-67cf42886eb2_MM_701_MY_1107_0686Note: To protect against computer viruses, e-mail programs may prevent sending or receiving certain types of file attachments. Check your e-mail security settings to determine how attachments are handled." src="http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1748680.1396903436%21/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_1200/vuecover13tvf-9-web.jpg"> Michael Yarish/AMC Jon Hamm as Don Draper, the Madison Avenue genius whose personal life is "in a bad place," says creator Matthew Weiner. </figure>
At the end of the 1960s, the R&B band Chairmen of the Board released a song whose lyrics went, in part, “If you dance to the music, don’t you know, you’ve got to pay to the piper.”
As Matthew Weiner prepares to wrap up his AMC hit “Mad Men,” also right around the end of the 1960s, he’s thinking the same thing for lead Mad Man Don Draper (Jon Hamm) and all his colleagues.
“This season is about consequences,” says Weiner, the creator and head writer of “Mad Men.” “We don’t just throw stuff away after it has happened. There are shadows over this season that go back to the first time we met Don.”
Back then, early in the show, Don was by all appearances the American success story. He was a rainmaker on Madison Avenue, an advertising genius. He seemed to have the perfect wife in ex-model Betty (January Jones), with two clean-cut kids.
Entering season seven, which starts Sunday night at 10 and will be divided into one seven-episode run this year and another seven-episode run in 2015, Don’s sparkling meadow looks more like quicksand.
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