They definitely made Elizabeth Moss more homely than she actually is, because she is adorable in other things I’ve seen her in. But casting Jessica Pare is suuuuch a stretch beyond any imagination. She’s not even that good an actor.

thank you. you articulated exactly my feelings. I don’t get people being upset that Peggy and Stan got together or that she and Joan didn’t team up. by expecting anyone to represent feminism in the exact way we would like them to - that therein is one of the big problems of feminism these days. we want our characters…

I think the Peggy and Stan ending was great, and I don’t think she turned down Joan for Stan. She wanted to turn Joan down, and Stan just made her feel better about that decision. She wanted to have her name on the door in advertising; it’s what she’s good at, where she’s comfortable, and the ladder she’s been…

Jessica Pare as Peggy? WAT.

he figured out how to sell his epiphany. maybe that’s progress, maybe not.

She made the right decision for her. That headhunter told her she’d quadruple her value in as many years at McCann, if she wants to be a creative director she’s on the right track.

Also a big risk for Peggy just in case the production company would fail. Joan has money but Peggy wouldn’t have a safety net.

A stranger who was comparing himself to a product no less. A language Don could finally understand.

I agree with you about Sally. Just a few episodes ago she was screaming at her dad that she hated him and her mom. In this episode she really grew up. I think she was recognizing that she’ll always get to go to Spain but she won’t get these last few months with her mother. Her family needed her and she needed them and…

The two women have very different history with respect to their career ambitions. Joan is wealthier, has fewer conventional options, and is further along in her career than Peggy. I could see Peggy branching out on her own in a decade or two, but at the moment, she’s getting what she wants by mostly following the…

I too had been thinking / hoping when the other female execs at McCann seemed to have it out for Peggy that Peggy and Joan would team up. They’re still looking out for one another, I imagine. But Peggy is so good at what she does, and if you think back to when Don asked her what she saw for her future: Peggy wants to…

I was actually very happy with Peggy and Joan’s final stories. The characters are foils for each other. Joan has historically relied on her looks or on the men in her life in order to get ahead, and here in the finale, she says goodbye to a perfect man offering her anything in order to forge a new career path alone,…

I am an unapologetic “Steggy” fan, but I too loved Roger and Marie the most. “A bottle of champagne for my mother.” Ha!

I felt like the whole thing ended up being a play on the Wizard of Oz - Don finally accepted the fact that his job is to be the man behind the curtain - the world needs it. Peggy, Joan and Roger all realized that they had the things they needed/thought they lacked (Smarts/talent, courage and heart) and Pete even went…

My thoughts exactly. And while I appreciated the Coke song finale - kudos to Vox for calling that one! - I would have liked a stronger indication of whether Don actually made that ad himself, whether he returned to be there for his children when they lost their mother. (Because of course it’s Sally who’s left caring…

I loved seeing Joan move on from tanboy and starting her own business so she never has to put up with any creep’s shit. It was also nice seeing Roger end up with a crazy but compatible and age appropriate woman.

I love that the stirring speech of the final episode was delivered by a rando. I kept thinking that that actor was one lucky son-of-a.

I loved that Joan feels like it takes two names for a business to sound real. When Peggy didn’t bite, she just used her own! Another revealing detail: when Joan asked Peggy to be her partner Joan was wearing the fuchsia dress that she wore when she was sexually harassed in her Topaz meeting with McCann. She hadn’t…

I didn’t think Peggy rejected Joan’s offer because of Stan. I think she rejected the offer because, yes, she would have been a partner, but she would have been working on internal corporate videos. When Joan floated the offer, I was like: hell, no! Peggy has a much bigger creative vision and would have been selling…

Last week was the finale in my mind. I liked the idea of people just fading away. Was that the last time we’d see ___? That felt more real to me. This was a strange post script.