The first half of Mad Men's final season is right around the corner, and, to honor the brilliant AMC series, Time put together a cover story featuring an in-depth, riveting interview with creator Matthew Weiner for its print edition. With a show as dense, intricate, and slow-burning as Mad Men is, it's great to have the mastermind behind it shed some light on what lays beneath the iceberg.
The cover story isn't available online unless you're a paid subscriber, so if you want to check that out you'll either have to shell out some dough, get a hard copy, or go to Barnes and Noble and be a freeloader.
Luckily, Time did post an excerpt with a gallery of some set pieces here, and we've got you covered with some excerpts of the best bits below.
On the audience influencing the writing of characters:
On Sally Draper's importance:
The inspirations behind Don Draper's character:
How the present shaped the show's past:
The dissonance, and what drives the three central female characters; Peggy, Betty, and Joan
On race and how and why it's dealt with on the show:
Check out the entire talk here.
Mad Men airs on April 6 on AMC.
[via Time]
