Mad Men 10 Things The Characters Wanted In Season 1 That Came True By The Finale

Mad Men: 10 Things The Characters Wanted In Season 1 That Came True By The Finale

Mad Men was full of drama and stories about finding your true calling in life and hopefully happiness on the way. Did everyone get what they wanted?

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As engrossing as Mad Men was when it premiered, it was also a bit grim, and sometimes in that first season it was hard to believe any of the characters would get the weight-of-the-world looks off their faces, let alone get anything they wanted.

But they did. For most, the struggle was real. Joan had to sleep with a client, Ken almost went blind, Pete had to deal with not one but two men who had secret identities, Peggy got dumped by a married man, Roger had two heart attacks, Betty had to compete with Megan, and Don had to live with a secret that half of Manhattan seemed to know about. But all’s well that ends well.

10 Ken Wanted Respect

“Ken from accounts,” as he liked to introduce himself, especially to the new secretaries, didn’t want to be just another ad guy in a grey flannel suit. He is a gifted short story writer, but instead of praise, he was told to end his side hustle, forcing him to publish under a nom de plume.

By the end of the series, he is still a worker bee account man servicing Chevy, and he even loses an eye in the process. He has had it with the agency side of the business and goes to work for his father-in-law as the head of advertising for Dow Chemical, and enacts revenge by not giving the account to his former colleagues.

9 Bert Cooper Wanted Tranquility

The man was the personification of zen. Employees had to take their shoes off before entering his office. He spent most of the day blissfully doing what seemed to be nothing. When Bert had to step in and listen to what he considered the petty problems of his staff (including Pete revealing that Don is not who he says he is and Don refusing to sign an agency contract), the elder statesman was swift with his justice.

By the end of the show, Bert had gone to his ultimate rest after watching the first moon landing. His idea of happiness was not of this world — or at least on Madison Avenue.

8 Sally Wanted A Nice Family

The eldest Draper child once screamed at her father that he was just like her mother: “You’re both narcissists.” When the show began, she was about eight years old and being raised with Don’s benign neglect and Betty’s resentment over feeling alone in her marriage.

By the series end, a mature Sally has made peace with the fact that her father would be a phone call away (as he always had been) but never part of the day-to-day. Her mother was dying and as the older sister, Sally would now care for her brothers, who would be going to live with Betty’s brother. Most importantly, she and her mother made peace.

7 Harry Wanted Power

From the first episode, Harry could only be described as a schlub, nerdy, and always stomping his feet because no one noticed he was in the room, let alone listened to him.

In the end, he was the head of Sterling Cooper’s television department (a self-created job that took off with the medium itself), and even though he missed the boat on the agency partnership that would have earned him a lot of money, Harry headed to Hollywood and became a TV powerbroker. This didn’t help him though when he propositioned Don’s wife Megan, who chose to be an unemployed actress rather than bed the guy she still considered a schlub.

6 Joan Wanted More

When we met the redheaded bombshell, she was the office queen aka manager relishing bossing around the secretarial staff. She was also Roger’s mistress, the perks of the job in the form of fur stoles and hotel room lunches, as opposed to promotions and raises. It seemed like she was never going to be seen as anything but a ginger Marilyn Monroe, but she had other talents, as evidenced by the great job she did reading and recommending scripts for Harry Crane, then getting to train the man he hired to do the job full time.

Joan ended up a former SCDP partner, owning her own production company with a tidy sum garnered from her dismissal from McCann, as well as dating a retired millionaire.

5 Pete Wanted To Be The Boss

He wanted Don’s job from day one and made it clear. Don made it clear that Pete might get it, “but no one will ever like you.” When the agency was restructured, he had to share the head account man job with Ken. And even when he went with the new agency, SCDP, and eventually made partner, Pete still felt like the low man on the totem pole.

In the final season, disenchanted with both his time in California and McCann, Pete takes former boss Duck Phillips, who is now a headhunter, up on his offer to become CEO of a company in the Midwest. He reunites with Trudy and they and their daughter begin anew.

4 Peggy Wanted To Be Taken Seriously

From her first day on the job, Joan made it clear that the newbie’s clothes, hair, and attitude were all wrong. Even Pete got into the criticism act, telling her to “show some leg.” Oh, and the young secretary lived in Brooklyn instead of Manhattan. Don, the womanizer, even turned her down when Peggy let him know she was available, thinking that’s what she was supposed to do.

And then there was Belle Jolie when Peggy gave her two-cents on the lipstick’s new ad campaign. She rose through the ranks at Sterling Cooper, got poached by Ted Chaough as a Copy Chief, and then finally rolled into McCann wearing Wayfarers and with a cigarette dangling from her lip as a senior writer.

3 Roger Wanted To Be Left Alone

It’s a good thing the advertising scion had money to throw at problems because his whole life seemed to be one. Clients, employees, his partner Bert, and the ad biz, in general, made him feel so put upon. Pile on his wife Mona and their daughter Margaret, and well, no wonder he drank. He came close to caring about Joan and his son, Kevin, but knew he could never be acknowledged as the father, so what could he say?

In the end, he found happiness in Paris with Don’s former mother-in-law, the formidable Marie Calvert, who needed nothing from him but companionship and romance.

2 Betty Draper Wanted Peace Of Mind

The blonde wife of the star adman had the face of an angel and the body of a fashion model. She also never met a panic attack she could handle. In season 1, Betty just wants to relax, but alas, even a psychiatrist couldn’t help. Desperately trying to appear as though her life was perfect caused her to stuff her anxieties down until they came out in the most inappropriate of ways, like getting a shotgun and shooting at the birds in her yard.

In the last episode, Betty has cancer and a calm about her that only a person with nothing left to lose can possess. She reconciles with Don in an unemotional way, letting him know the future of her children will be her way or the highway. The mother finally has a true bond with her daughter.

1 Don Draper Wanted It All

The premiere episode was so chockfull of clues to this man’s desires, it was hard to figure how many lives he’d have to live to fulfill them all. He wanted to be a family man, as well as a swinging single man about town; a New York advertising star but, at the same time, disappear to anywhere-but-here with the mistress of the moment. He never again wanted to be Dick Whitman, yet in later seasons, we see he did, when it was convenient.

In the last season’s final journey, Don has said goodbye to Betty, knows his kids will be taken care of (not by him of course), and he lets go of the now-deceased Anna Draper, California, and his alter ego (not to mention his car). He’s already paid off Megan in the divorce settlement, so he’s free to date and perhaps find wife number 3, and, if the last scene of the Coke commercial is any indication, head back to NYC to create one of the most successful ad campaigns of all time.

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