It's been a committed 1,5 months with 7 seasons. It's odd that I haven't really heard about it before as just last week I saw bits of it in OITNB and Colbert's. It has to be the only TV series that's perfectly consistent. There's none of that crap where the new season is 2 years apart and half the characters are gone along with their plotlines. It all just unravels smoothly.

I picked it after I found a documentary based on it and because it sounded exciting and safe but although there's no graphic violence and only a few dark scenes, there's something sinister about it. A kind of a tragedy of human condition. Everyone is so profoundly fucked up. It is hard to find a character to love. The men are all horrible, it's like you pick who's the least horrible and then turns out he's actually the worst. The only decent ones are gay. Which reminds me of Masters of Sex. The women aren't really that likeable either. You want to admire them but they often disappoint with being horrible to black women or each other. But you know what? A good show doesn't need you to love the characters. It just needs to be interesting. I am very bitter about Ginsberg though, he deserved better.

Don Draper is a good character and I get that he's supposed to be irresistible but it's literally every single woman on the show loses her mind when she sees him. He clearly is the writer's power fantasy. By Season 7 I was sick of him but I think that having a character who is the ultimate strong silent man but is actually deeply depressed and broken is good.

Apart from the plot, the show is very visually appealing, with all the shapes and colours and the slowly shifting eras. I also really appreciate that unlike most period shows that use a washed up version of the past, the show captures the atmosphere of the time it is set in in all the good and bad aspects. There's the historically accurate sexism, racism and homophobia. The creator said he meant to make the modern women realize just how good they have it. But rather than that, I feel like it probably made the white men wish for those golden years when they ruled everything. Also, everyone drinking smoking non-stop, anywhere, even the pregnant women. There are also many smaller details like not wearing seatbelts or littering carelessly. Many scenes make you uncomfortable, like the blackface at the party, but I think that's good.

Overall, I think the show was going very strong for 6 seasons but Season 7 was kind of disappointing. It felt like it lacked a direction, the plots were tired and unexciting. The ending came as a surprise for me though. I totally expected a tragic end with Don finding ultimate peace. It felt like it was going to that point but I guess the writers thought it would be way too depressing.