[2][3][4][5] In the fall of 1970, Don calls Sally from Utah, where he's witnessed Gary Gabelich's Blue Flame break the land speed record at the Bonneville Speedway.
Making his way further west to California, Don reunites with Anna Draper's niece Stephanie, who has left her child to be raised with his paternal grandmother.
Meanwhile, as Joan and Richard begin planning their new life together, she receives a business opportunity from her old colleague Ken Cosgrove.
Roger tells her that he's going to marry Megan's mother, Marie Calvet, and Joan laughs, delighted by the scandal.
Back at the Francis residence, Sally has returned home from boarding school, ostensibly because she missed Bobby and Gene.
Noticing that Bobby has burned his grilled cheese, Sally offers to show him how to do it properly, and she commences being the woman of the house.
Peggy pleads for him to return home and to his job, insisting McCann Erickson would gladly take him back and there is work to be done with the Coca-Cola account.
In despair and on the verge of a breakdown, Don confesses many of his wrongdoings to Peggy: stealing another man's name, breaking all of his vows and scandalizing Sally, believing that he's done nothing truly substantial in his life, and confiding that the main reason he called was he never bade her goodbye.
During the meeting Don sees a fellow attendee, Leonard, confess to feeling unloved and overlooked by his family and colleagues.
The site's consensus reads, "'Person to Person' shoulders the burden of concluding a masterpiece by avoiding predictability while still offering a sweet sendoff for most of Mad Men's main characters.
[8] Alan Sepinwall of HitFix felt the Stan and Peggy aspect, while "as sappy and wish-fullfillment-y as Mad Men has ever gotten", was "a fair way to end things" for her character.
In real life, the ad was created by Bill Backer of McCann Erickson — the agency for which Don works at the time of the finale.
Maybe, when Don finishes his meditation, he stands up and walks out of the California retreat that he hobos his way into and gets on a plane back to New York City, with the fully formed idea for "I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke" in his head.
Or maybe, when he finishes, he gets up to spend another day living a new, possibly purer life, as neither Don Draper nor Dick Whitman but whatever he is that is underneath both of those costumes.
[21]Series creator and episode writer Matthew Weiner said in an interview after the finale: I did hear rumblings of people talking about the ad being corny.