In his first interview since the Mad Men finale, Matt Weiner sat down with writer A.M. Homes at the New York Public Library to discuss the show's ending — and revealed that he intended the enigmatic finale scene, which implied that Don Draper invented the famous "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" ad, to be an optimistic grace note.
"I'm not saying that advertising's not corny. But I'm saying that people who find that ad corny are kind of… they're probably experiencing a lot of life that way, and they're missing out on something," said Weiner.
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