The popular Beatles record Abbey Road, has a major influence on Mad Men and its creator, Matthew Weiner.
The seventh and final season starts on April 14th and will end with a metaphor pertaining to The Beatles album.
In an interview with Buzzfeed, Weiner stated, "I just always loved that the album actually ends, almost like The Sopranos did, in the middle of a song. It's just, 'Cut!' – you know, that last note of 'Her Majesty'?" he said. "So I just admire it in artistic expressionism, looking at wrapping up the show. I'm writing an ending, and it will – whether I like it or not – frame the entire 92-hour experience of the show in some way. So I was impressed with how the Beatles dealt with that responsibility."
Unlike the Beatles, Mad Men will not make it to see the 70s decade. Weiner hasn’t revealed the time period in which the show would end, but makes it known the show was supposed to be set in the sixties.
"The intention of the show starting in 1960 was to reframe or revise people's concept of what it was like to live then, and show how similar it was to now, or how different it was — and all of the sex and all of the reframing of that, and not being Leave It to Beaver," he said, according to Rolling Stone.
The first episode of the season is called “The Beginning” which alludes to the beginning of the end. The 14 final hours of the series will be intense and all Weiner discloses is that Peggy Olson will be “OK” and the tension around Don Draper will be examined.
