Weiner apparently is going to give ONE interview to discuss the final ep, Wednesday in New York. It will be interesting to see if he reveals how deep the final shot goes.
Is it, on the surface, Don finding his inner peace, and the Coke ad is emblematic of it?
Did Don use this new self-realization to craft the Coke ad after returning to McCann-Erickson?
Or was Don's smile at the end his cynical realization that he could market this hippy crap to the masses -- with "The Real Thing" a supremely ironic statement about just how phony Don and his world really are?
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