‘Mad Men’ Preview: Buckle Up For 7 ‘Dense’ Episodes, Says Matthew Weiner

11 April 2014 7:48 PM, PDT | Variety - TV News | See recent Variety - TV News news »

Get ready and don’t blink — the “Mad Men” mini season that begins on Sunday is tightly packed with momentous developments for the core Sterling Cooper gang.

“The episodes are dense,” creator/exec producer Matthew Weiner says of season 7-a. Because the show’s finale is divided over two years, and the first batch of seven episodes have to stand alone until the final seven air next year, each seg is action-packed, he says.

“After realizing that I needed two premieres and two finales, it changed the pacing of every other episode. These episodes are more focused on the main characters than ever before — and I’ve got a lot of main characters. There’s no room for digression this time. The first seven feel like (the story arc of) a whole season,” Weiner says.

The historical backdrop of the era (presumably early-ish in 1969) is an important factor as always »

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