![]() …or a ghost: There were those fans who were so convinced Megan Draper was meant to die that they imagined she was already dead, and that her appearances were simply Don’s fantasy life. No one’s going to die,” said showrunner Matthew Weiner, which failed to calm the speculation that Megan was doomed (though in the world of the show, she’s still very much alive). Megan Draper is Sharon Tate: Probably the most famous of all Mad Men hypotheses, the theory that Don Draper’s wife was meant to be a stand-in for the slain wife of Roman Polanski caught fire during the show’s sixth season, after Megan wore a shirt identified with Tate. ![]() Cooper or Alcoholics Anonymous founder “Bill W.,” seem unlikely but still might.) Here are some of the theories that didn’t pan out. (Some, like the notion that Don is set to become famous air hijacker D. It’s a testament to Mad Men‘s power over its audience that the series was able to live so vividly in the minds of fans, and a testament to the show’s control that most of the more lurid theories didn’t come true. ![]() It’s no surprise, then, that the series has prompted a great deal of speculation about potential twists that never quite happened, or character identities that were more convoluted in the minds of fans than in the show’s reality. Mad Men, which airs its final episode Sunday night, has long been a show that’s embraced mystery: Things are left unsaid, characters behave erratically, changes come suddenly in a manner that feels more like life than like tightly plotted television. ![]()
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