'Mad Men' Episode 10: Just 4 shows left, and we're looking at 'the forecast?'

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“Four score and seven years ago... We know where we’ve been. We know where we are. Let’s assume it’s good. That it’s going to get better.

... It’s supposed to get better.”

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In “The Forecast,” Mad Men dips into meta commentary on the next chapter for its characters: Roger enlists Don to craft SCDP’s equivalent of a “Gettysburg Address” — a written statement about the future of the company, and where it will be next year. Roger doesn’t need “science fiction,” he says — just “reasonable hopes and dreams.”

Of course, there will be no "next year" for Mad Men in reality, as the series winds down its final run. So, in a way, notions of the future for Mad Men characters read like a musing on the afterlife. There are those that espouse a view that life after death has fixed things: saints, heaven, riches. But then there are those that doubt the existence of an after life altogether Read more...

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