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Matthew Weiner has revealed some of the tings which he had hoped to do for the Mad Men series finale which aired two weeks ago. He spoke about it at a panel at the Writers Guild Foundation event “Inside the Writers Room with Mad Men.”
“I had a ton of doubts, ” Weiner said during the panel while surrounded by a bevy of Mad Men writers. He said that he spent Mad Men’s final weeks, “in my house covering my face. I just didn’t know. I didn’t want to end the show in an argument. You know, you can’t defend yourself.”
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About writing the finale Weiner said, “I go though the same process every time: I have an idea; I think it’s great; I show it to everybody [on staff]; I doubt it as I’m watching them listen to it; and then we’re about to do it and I’m like ‘I don’t know if I want to do it, ’ and they’re like ‘No, it was great.’ And then I moved out of my office in December and I spent basically the next six months with my confidence in everything we did slowly eroding.”
He also showed a page from the finale’s script which had a number of hand written revisions on it.
Entertainment Weekly’s Anthony Breznican tweeted a picture of it.
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