AMC not ready to let Mad Men go, brehs

[ECA]

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, AMC is not especially keen on letting go of its hit dramas. So perhaps it was inevitable that the network has announced that—as with Breaking Bad before it—the goodbye to Mad Men will also be a long one. The L.A. Times broke the news that the seventh and final season will (like Don Draper, and so many of us, really) be split into two parts. Each half will consist of seven episodes, with the first batch, dubbed “The Beginning,” airing in spring 2014, and the second, “The End Of An Era,” airing in spring 2015.

While AMC’s Charlie Collier raved about how this decision promised to entice more viewers to the show the way Breaking Bad’s split did, presumably by giving fans more months to pester their friends into finally catching up, Matthew Weiner naturally couched it as a creative opportunity. “We plan to take advantage of this chance to have a more elaborate story told in two parts, which can resonate a little bit longer in the minds of our audience,” he said. So perhaps the first half will offer the sense of “culmination" and lack of farts that Weiner has long promised, and the second half will reveal the show was all an elaborate fantasy being fed into Don Draper’s brain, as he finally awakes from cryogenic sleep in the year 2669, ready to do battle with Bob Benson’s galactic army. Either way, we officially now have two more years of speculating about it.

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[Black Ball]

I didn't even know the next season would be the show's last. Probably the Goat written show right next to the Wire.

 

[FlyRy]

don't see why everyones surprised..alot of the shows do this on their last season. .sopranos did it..breaking bad did it. hell even sex and the city did it.

 

[R.E.N. Spells Ren]

don't see why everyones surprised..alot of the shows do this on their last season. .sopranos did it..breaking bad did it. hell even sex and the city did it.

Sopranos gave us 21 episodes...splitting 14 episodes into two seasons is straight bullshyt

 

[STAN JONES]

Sopranos gave us 21 episodes...splitting 14 episodes into two seasons is straight bullshyt

They couldve atleast only took a couple months off

Like air the first 7 in the spring and then the last 7 in the fall like other networks do but making nikkas wait a whole year is just wrong

 

[ThaRealness]

Sopranos gave us 21 episodes...splitting 14 episodes into two seasons is straight bullshyt

thats some south park shyt

 

[FlyRy]

Sopranos gave us 21 episodes...splitting 14 episodes into two seasons is straight bullshyt

well, AMC knows their emmy days/critical success are done after this and breaking bad are done.. they'll just have commercial success with the walking dead

 

[MushroomX]

well, AMC knows their emmy days/critical success are done after this and breaking bad are done.. they'll just have commercial success with the walking dead

I wouldn't say that. Its just finding a show takes so many things. Right plot, Right Actors. Unless you are JJ Abrams or Josh Whedon, you have to handle the hard times, because many networks will say no. Say someone throws out a plot for like Triads/Yakuza for FX, and they say no, well then head to AMC or HBO. Then after 2 seasons, it finds it's foothold, like The Walking Dead. You just don't know which series will click with audience.

 

[NSSVO]

They are trying to see if Low Winter Sun get's burn.

 

[Rico]

Oh no... if they cancel this what will I put on to cure my insomnia.