"Mad Men:" The show may be done, but we're not done with the show

It feels weird not writing about "Mad Men" this week. So, what the heck, we'll write about it anyway.

Here's how we imagine AMC's synopsis for our phantom episode would read:

"Don gazes meaningfully into the middle distance when Joan learns a secret. Betty has misgivings over something that any rational person would have misgivings over. Sterling Cooper secretaries react to an historical event. Roger pours himself a drink. An incident occurs."

And here's a post-season interview with Jon Hamm. His thoughts on the season finale:

"There were a couple ways we talked about ending it. But I think that this deliberately ambiguous ending was the right one. There could have been any number of things Betty could have said to Don at the table there, and anything that he could have said in response. We don't know what's going to happen to these two people next -- they've clearly got a pretty dysfunctional relationship and a pretty broken marriage. But I think we are able to maintain a tension when there are more things that are unseen, when we just get little drips and drops. The device of moving forward in time helps that greatly, especially in both seasons when you have a pregnancy moving to the forefront."

Hamm on how far "Mad Men" should take Don's story:

"It's a tough call, because there's a pretty big sea change that happens at a certain point in society, and I think that the reason 'Mad Men' has been so successful is that it lives in this transitory period of the '60s. Once we move through that into a post-Watergate, post-counter culture world the symbolism of the time shifts into a totally different thing. I don't think we need to follow Don into the late '70s or '80s. His story will have been told by then. I love playing the character and being a part of the show, so in that sense I hope it goes on forever. But shark-jumping can definitely happen if you start thinking like that."