AMC's period drama "Mad Men" returns on Apr. 7 with a sixth season two-hour premiere that creator Matthew Weiner says is "constructed like a film."
"It is its own story and hopefully it foreshadows the rest of the season. You should know what happened at the end of last season before you see the episode. The whole season is in reference to last season," Weiner told Entertainment Weekly.
Weiner won't say how long a time skip separates the new season from the end of the last one, but many unresolved questions should be answered in the premiere.
Has Don Draper been unfaithful to his wife Megan? How is Peggy's new job? Has Roger Sterling found more LSD?
Weiner is tight-lipped on the first point. "What do you know about Don? He spent a season trying to have a domestic situation that is more familiar to most of us than his previous ones. He was in the glow of that marriage and interestingly enough -- and it hasn't really been commented on much other than from audience members that I talk to -- Megan's independence was really a disappointment for him. It really changed his fantasy of what that relationship would be. Is he threatened by it? Is that the thing that drives him to be unfaithful? I don't know."
Weiner has confirmed that Mad Men will end after it's seventh season, so he was tempted to write the rest of the story arc in one go, tying the last two seasons into a single, unified tale.
"I was really starting to think in terms of the last 26 episodes together, and there was a story intervention done by my executive producers Maria and Andre where they were like, 'You have to deal with it one season at a time, or the show's going to be very, very tedious. You just have to give everything you have. That's what you've done every season,'" he said.
"We've been taking advantage of the 26 episodes we have left to do all the things that we've wanted to do, and so far I think that the audience is in for quite a ride."
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