10 TV Show Endings That Get Better The More You Think About Them

8. Mad Men - Person To Person

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Mad Men's finale is one of the most hotly debated in the big world of small screen drama, its ambiguous closing shot hinting at any number of things which will surely be talked over and analysed for years to come.

The main focus of Person to Person is Don Draper, who in the show's final scene is found meditating, smiling peacefully, before the screen cuts to the famous 1971 Hilltop Coca-Cola advertisement. The implication here is simple enough: Don, in a moment of clarity, created the perfect ad, and went back to what he does best.

The controversial ending led many to believe Draper hadn't changed after all, and had reverted to his old ways without comeuppance or growth. But it's actually deeper than that, finding a man caught between two identities - Draper, his adopted self, and Dick Whitman, his former self - and finding peace between them.

Draper suffered through seven seasons of lies and identity crises, and with his "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" ad (an idea that's too sentimental not to be Whitman) has successfully re-invented himself one last time, his identity struggles over.

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