Mad Men Season 4

couldn't disagree more on this one, though i generally loathe betty as well (insisting to sally's psychlogist that she doesn't need one of her own, then recoiling in horror when the shrink says sally is ready to cut their sessions to once a week because betty -- the real child -- needs the time with the child doc more than sally does at this point -- was hateful).

however i'll give betty credit for knowing what a little perv sally's guy pal is (from her babysitting experience with ohim) and is nothing but foreboding trouble for her daughter so let's bolt from this town. my take, anyway. betty's certainly a mess but i do not believe she always fails to look out for her daughter. wasn't this episode directed at making that exact point? betty is looking out only for herself with the psychologist, but then is protecting sally with her desire to move away from the future serial-killer.

or am i completely whiffing here?

 

Yep...he was a great character, and I can certainly see it.

 

I wanted Midge back, but not quite that way.

 

I felt scared for Don.

Sad scene, though.

 

Sad, sad shit. . . but the social point was made.

Hate to see Cooper disappear . . . but that's how it looks from here.

 

Is Sally's friend little David Berkowitz?

 

I don't see Conrad Hilton coming back for two reasons: 1. Don pretty much gets no creative freedom; 2. He wasn't even mentioned as someone to call. With the firm that desperate, you'd think someone would bring it up.

I'm trying to figure out how Cooper leaving is a bad thing for the firm. For the show, yes, because he's a great character. But he's always just been a figurehead for the firm.

 

Hilton always respected Don's character. Maybe the newspaper advertisement puts it over the edge.

 

And it also looks like Pete is staying now that Don has paid his share of the emergency fund. If he becomes the new senior partner, they won't even have to change SCDP's initials.

Also, an interesting catch by Sepinwall:

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/mad-men-blowing-smoke-heres-a-letter-to-the-new-york-times

 

The title of the next episode is Tomorrowland so maybe the mouse ears are the deus ex machina?

 

From Wiki...

In 1959, three major attractions, the park's first billed E-ticket attractions, opened at Tomorrowland. These were the Disneyland Monorail, Submarine Voyage, and the Matterhorn (which later became part of Fantasyland). These additions were collectively so large in scope that they were televised as the second opening of Disneyland. New attractions came and some went as Walt Disney focused his efforts on the 1964–65 New York World's Fair. After the Fair closed, he turned his attention to a new Tomorrowland and the Florida Project, which would later become Walt Disney World.

They just had the concert at Shea, so this fits.

Sweet Jesus, they land The Mouse.

 

The World's Fair ran until Oct. 17, 1965, so you're right, it fits into the time frame. Maybe a chance meeting when Don takes his kids to the Fair?