“Don doesn’t fill the typical hero mode because he’s more like a regular person, and his flaws have to do with being shitty, and not coming through,” he said. While viewers have watched the alcohol-dependent, womanizing but brilliantly perceptive Don Draper try to invent himself several times, Weiner warned against seeing the protagonist, played with suave nuance by Jon Hamm, as a hero or anti-hero. The 7th and final season – split in two by the AMC network over Weiner’s objections – is being broadcast right now in the US and other territories, and will wrap up next month.Ĭommenting on the end of the 6th season, which saw Draper’s character implode under the weight of his several layers of lies and mystery, Weiner said “I wanted him to commit to change”. Weiner, who was notoriously cagey about Mad Men during its run, let loose about its creative input now that the landmark programme is coming to an end. ( READ: ‘Mad Men’ creator knew how series would end from start) The comments by Weiner – the show’s producer, chief writer, frequent director and, though he dislikes the title, showrunner of the series on the air since 2007 –were made to a packed theatre in a French festival on world TV called Series Mania.

“Shame is his lifeblood,” Matthew Weiner said of his intriguing main character, who is the engine of his influential and stylish series about an ad man of the 1950s and 1960s that has won multiple awards for its cinematic quality and near-literary writing. PARIS, France – Don Draper, the central and serially seductive character of the hit TV show Mad Men, is actually a “very weak man”, his creator told a Paris audience on Sunday, April 19.

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