9/12/2023 0 Comments Mad men business crosswordFeaturing prominently in an episode called “The Doorway,” many read Don’s choice of book, combined with the episode title, to signify his entry into the nine circles, his sins leading the way. The most blatant foreshadowing was Don’s choice of beach read: Dante’s Inferno, about a man’s tour through Hell, where the suffering befits the sinner. Season 6 of Mad Men began with a treasure trove of suggestions that maybe, possibly Don was headed for death. The prediction, then, is a poetic death by a plane crash for Don, as the Chicago Sun-Times points out, “30,000 feet in the air, somewhere that’s neither here nor there-in limbo, where he’s lived much of his life.” And remember that opening sequence? A man falling through the air? Who says he jumped out of a building? Maybe he fell out of a plane. Outside of the premiere, too, there is an abundance of airplane imagery used in the promo materials for the show’s final season. Then, when Megan asks him what he’s watching, he lies and says nothing. He tells possible Angel of Death Neve Campbell, “I fly a lot.” When he’s at Megan’s house in L.A., he’s watching Frank Carpra’s 1937 Lost Horizon, about plane crash survivors who end up in Shangri-La-significant, considering Don’s constant search for paradise. We first see Don shaving in an airplane lavatory. Is he rejecting her, or rejecting her cautionary tale-unable to derail his destiny? He then opens the plane window, which has been closed the entire flight, as she leaves the frame, as if she was just a manifestation of his conscience, an entity he routinely ignores, all along.ĭoes Don Draper die in a plane crash? All of the airplane imagery in the Season 7 premiere hints to that, at least according to one theory. They fall asleep on each other’s shoulders, and he eventually rebuffs her invitation to go home with her. “I thought he was really getting better, then a doctor told me he would be dead in a year,” she says. The part that strikes the most ominous chord, though, is her assertion that even though her husband appeared to have slowed his vices, as Don seems to be doing, it was too, late. “He died of thirst.” Her entire tale echoes Don’s narrative: the over-worker who over-indulges. to scatter her husband’s ashes after his death, apparently, from alcoholism. You see, Campbell played a widow Don meets on the redeye back to New York after visiting Megan in Los Angeles. Pleasant for everyone but Don, that is! Because maybe, just maybe, Campbell played the angel of death, a portent of what’s in store for Don. ![]() The pleasant surprise of Sunday night’s premiere was a kept-under-wraps guest appearance from Scream and Party of Five star Neve Campbell.
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