I don't think they drink all that much. We see them having wine in the evenings sometimes and sometimes kick back with a beer. Compared to Mad Men, as sallgood mentioned below, they're teetotalers.

The set up's already pretty interesting, though. Blackmailed from the US, investigating corruption amongst his dad's friends.

Philip and Elizabeth are just shorter because of malnutrition after the war.

I doubt her Russian's good enough for that yet.

Not Gregory!

Weren't they using a metal detector to find the coffin? That seems to be how they knew where it was. But you're right about incinerating him.

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Why would they go to the trouble of spiriting her away to Russia to dump in a Siberian pond? She's fine—at least in that sense. The Soviets liked people like her.

But Elizabeth is a True Believer. Putin doesn't represent The Cause.

Yeah, a big draw of Stan is that he's a cool FBI agent, a single guy he imagines having sex and that he's not his parent. Like Paige found out her parents were more politically engaged than her hero Pastor Tim, Henry thinks Stan's a super agent when his parents are Russian Batman.

Although that wouldn't be a big shock to Stan. He already learned about the Connors who were also a pair of Directorate S agents with kids. So he knows that's not unusual.

Guess I had this thread followed so I had to reply. As far as I'm concerned those cups are one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. It's like finally "beating" your period. The opposite of difficult! I always feel like I'm in a commercial when the subject comes up but I just love it.

Of course, one reason she handled that fear well is that she simply didn't get it. That's why she thought she could tell the pastor in the first place. In this ep she first deals with the idea that her parents might kill to protect their secret and she's just on Alice's side. But Alice's threat then leads to her…

Yeah, it would actually be weirder if Elizabeth constantly had the latest haircut. They're supposed to blend in, and being fashion plates isn't fitting in. Though I think it is supposed to be part of her character that she likes her hair this way and isn't going to change it, period.

They don't advance it a year each season. They advance it ahead whatever the plot dictates. That's probably one reason they wound up putting a time jump mid-season last year, because the child actors had grown so much more. But that's the only time jump that was arbitrary at all.

God, yes. I will never understand this attitude. It's like people think that if they stay home the candidates will say, "Wait, Jordan didn't vote! Somebody call him and find out why!" And then Jordan will get to lecture them on how they weren't up to his standards. And he thinks this is effective even while…

I've never felt like it had anything to do with wanting a war. It's more that there's an obvious shift to all these extreme right positions here and in Europe and it's pretty logical that Putin would be encouraging it because it helps Russia, so we should be aware of that. But not by going to war with them.

The lines in Russian are written in English and then translated so they're not always the same, but I don't think that word's ever come up. Philip and Elizabeth wouldn't use it because they avoid Russian words at all cost.

Once upon a time, FX’s The Americans was just a fun, pulpy period piece, a throwback to an era…

But I think they were definitely going for more than "not that unusual.". With kids nobody has reason to wonder if they can't or if they choose not to because they have them. They had the kids to blend in and seem an aggressively normal suburban family.