“Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner is many things: brilliant, confident, imperious and hard-working. He is not one who panders to fans, and yet, he has made them very happy with the conclusion to the first half of the show’s final season.
Most critics agree Sunday night’s episode was one of the most satisfying in the show’s history, a crowd pleaser that tidied up almost every loose plotline.
TheWrap’s Tim Molloy praised Weiner for writing (and directing) a “packed, fiercely ambitious episode” while the New York Times’ Logan Hill claimed these last seven episodes have been as good as any full season in the show’s history.