"I'm not totally sure I completely buy Lucy's rapid transformation from naive innocent to scheming femme fatale though."

"… So the woods scene reminiscent to Millers Crossing…"

"> The 'Bear in the woods' sequence pays tribute to the Cohen's similar scene from 'Miller's Crossing' with its angles/frames."

Absolutely. Some commenters keep referring to the scene as a "reference" to Miller's Crossing. A reference? Hell no, it's a virtual shot-for-shot replication of almost the entire classic scene:

A reference? No, a virtual shot-for-shot replication of almost the entire scene from Miller's Crossing:

You could be right - although I imagine most of us here are all hoping, for the baby's long-term mental health and stability, that it's Cole's ;)

"Guess, the lawyers will be quite surprised when it turns out to be Cole's and not Scott's baby."

I nearly spit up what I was drinking when Helen said to Whitney, "You've inherited your father's ridiculous charm." If Whitney is charming, I'm the King of England.

The very millisecond she first uttered the actual, proper name of her favorite hideaway little bar-on-the-beach,"Banana Joe's", alarm bells, sirens, and spinning red lights were triggered in my living room.

I guess that's possible too, but given his dictatorial nature and overall iron fist at running the camp, that seems a bit out of character to me. I mean, this is the wife of the leader (or at least, second-in-command) of the scientists reporting on suspicious activity by foreigners that are stationed there.

As I mentioned above, judging by Colonel Darrow's quick, curt reaction to Abby's report on Crosley (i.e. no followup questions or request for more details), I thought the writers were trying to make it clear by that he was already aware of the "spying" (or one might deem it as "information sharing") by the Brits.

One thing unmentioned in this review: I might be wrong, but I thought it was fairly clear by Colonel Darrow's quick, curt reaction to Abby's report on Crosley (i.e. no followup questions or requests for details) that he was already aware of the spying that was happening.

Mad Men used a contemporary song from The Decemberists' once; it was from 2005, “The Infanta”:

No problem - thank you for having the gumption to acknowledge that there was some info you missed. Many people on these commenting boards never bother to do that.

I would even go so far as to say that the set-decorators made a point of applying the fake char on the wall in an attempt to simulate a concentrated single point of combustion (i.e. Mays' body). Here's a still from the scene:

The only the part of the operating theater wall that was shown as charred is where Mays' burning body was lying after he rammed into it and fell. As I already replied to your previous comment, it's obvious from the way the scene is shot that nothing catches fire (initially) except Mays - there is a long camera hold on…

The char on the walls was from Mays' burning body lying near or against it after he rams into it and falls. It's obvious from the scene that nothing catches fire (initially) except Mays - there is a long camera hold on the operating table and nurse that shows nothing else ignited from the spark. The set-decorators…

He might have survived had he not been drunk and had his breath and beard not been saturated with alcohol fumes and residue (having been revealed to be an alcoholic).

Spark from cauterizer ignited ether vapor seeping from the open trachea, which in term ignited alcohol residue (and fumes) on/in Mays' beard, hair, and breath.

12 years is a small amount of time in terms of large-scale construction. I've lived in the same city for 30 years and there are a few things that have been built that I'm not keen on (although I do like the Eiffel Tower).