It’s the other way around. I enjoy the show more because of the pleasure of noting such things. I am baffled by people’s negative reaction to those who fully watching a show. I watch a show. I pay attention. I can really get into a show. That’s a good thing.
Didn’t the call out for cash from Lane come before Don’s New York Times shenanigans? It’s perfectly possible that Cooper had already paid before he “quit” (although we both already agree that he probably didn’t actually sever his relationship with SCDP).
Anything that takes me out of the suspension of disbelief during a presentation is a negative.
In a previous thread on the show, someone suggested that Bert Cooper said he was going home because he didn’t want to be around for the layoffs (the weeping and the goodbyes and all that).
I think that was me, but on second viewing, it really did look like Cooper was quitting.
Who the hell is that?
You’re Roger Sterling, right?
You recall correctly. I was just thinking out loud why I don’t believe Bert’s actually quit.
Ding! Ding! 
And she’s the son of Richard Harris and played the mom in the Karate Kid movie.
I can totally get behind this. But one potential issue is the actress who plays Sally. Matt Weiner is really impressed with her work and she played a big part in this season’s story. Can she look two years older by next season? Probably. A lot can be done with hair and clothes to make a kid look older.
And hormone shots. Take her to the same doctor who rumor says keeps Justin Bieber from hitting puberty and ask him or her for the antidote.
Oh-oh! When Don gives a woman The Gaze (the schoolteacher dancing around the maypole last season, Megan putting on lipstick, right after he got the Beatles tickets) - it can only lead to one thing! (But I never noticed a woman in the next building. I kind of thought Don and the nurse who lives in his building would hook up, but it was not to be.)
Hysterically parodied in an episode of Community when the socially awkward pop culture geek Abed becomes a suave ladies man by channeling Don Draper. (For extra meta-humor, Alison Brie who plays Trudy on Mad Men is Annie on Community.)
I tried to see what could be in the window across the way but it just seemed to be a blur to me. I don’t remember any woman in the next building. If so, that’s another weird linkage with Rubicon, which had a long plot thread about the protagonist and the woman he kept watching in the building across the way. They’re also in Greenwich Village, I think.
I’m not sure if this is serious, but the suggestion that Faye is going to be out to get Don after the events of the season finale is totally contrary to everything we know about her.
To age up Sally: grow out her hair, put her in a miniskirt (lose the socks!), padded bra, and some white go-go boots, Yardley makeup. Have her slump and slow down her movements, affect a sullen attitude, and hang out with some slightly older, more sophisticated friends. She’ll come across as at least 16.
Also film her scenes last. She’s on the cusp of puberty anyway so by the final weeks of shooting she’ll probably be there.
Whatever you think of each season, if either of them is pressing a reset one it’s clearly this season’s finale.
If anything they will *have to *bump the timeline up a few years if Kieran Shipka hits a growth spurt, which would not be unusual for her age. A