Viewers will soon have to say goodbye to the beloved AMC series "Mad Men," a show that has seen Don, Betty, Peggy and the rest of the characters go through a myriad of personal and societal changes. The upcoming seventh and final season will continue to chronicle the changes that were shaping society at the end of the 1960s.
The series has chronicled one of the biggest changes of the late 1960s/early 1970s: increased freedoms for women. Women gained more freedoms, such as the option to pursue high-skill professions, due to the women's liberation movement. This change has allowed Peggy Olsen (Elisabeth Moss) to assume bigger and better roles at Sterling Cooper. At the end of the sixth season, viewers saw Peggy sitting in Don Draper's (Jon Hamm) chair after Don was asked to take a temporary leave of absence. This led to speculation that Peggy will assume Don's job in the upcoming season.
According to Fashion & Style, Elisabeth Moss spoke to NPR's Terry Gross about Peggy's future. "Anything that I think might happen or could guess or envision for her, whatever it is it's going to be better than that," Moss said. "It's going to be more interesting; it's going to be more complex."
Moss also commented on the last scene from season six, and what it could portend. "I love that last scene," Moss said. "I love that she's wearing a pants suit. That's the first time she... Yeah, she's wearing pants for the first time in the office, which is a very big moment."
"And it's very kind of subtle in the sense that that is where everything is," Moss said, referring to Don's office. "That's where all the stuff is."
"But it's, you know, for the audience obviously it's a big kind of tongue-in-cheek hint," Moss continued. "And then she sort of sits down in the chair, and you see the back of the head, a very Don Draper moment."
"And it's a nice little tease," Moss added.
Fans will hate to see Peggy and the rest of the characters go after the series finale. Yet, according to E! Online, some of the "Mad Men" characters may not be gone for good.
Kevin Rahm, who plays Don Draper's rival Ted Chaough, said at the Television Academy Performers Peer Group Reception that he is going to pitch a "Mad Men" spinoff. Rahm wants the spinoff to be an "Odd-Couple" like drama, focusing on Ted and Pete (Vincent Kartheiser). "I keep working a spinoff angle. The spinoff is me and Pete, "The Odd Couple" in L.A., but they're both dirty. Two Felixes," Rahm said.
As for the final season of "Mad Men," Rahm did not have any details about what lies ahead for his character. "No, none, and I won't until I get the script and even then I can't tell," Rahm revealed.
Rahm also said that he wants to be involved in the rumored "Desperate Housewives" movie, which he thinks should focus on the women solving a murder mystery.
The final season of "Mad Men" will premiere on AMC in 2014.