Could be! Though just thought we should note that his parents would probably have been married no later than 1940 since he has an older brother who according to IMDB was 8 at this time. So the father would have been with the mother for those two years, or twice at least, in order to father two kids.

Yes, he's said he died when he was 6, so right around the time of these flashbacks. Oddly, when he was talking to Tuan he almost seemed to imply the family had more trouble getting food *before* his father died. Did things just improve in the next few years in general? Did mom get a great job? Did mom marry someone…

Oh no, they're here all right!

Yes, exactly. They just keep throwing things out there that read as "Christian" even when they contradict each other and really wouldn't be in the same church. (They also seem to have unintentionally given Paige a schedule to rival her parents with all the random things they suggest she's doing weekly.) Likewise…

It's actually hard to tell what he is. He certainly seems like he should just be a social justice Christian, but he also had Paige reading the Bible right away and studying it in a way that certainly seems to imply she's reading it as a book of answers on which to base your life. And he encouraged her to pray to God…

She's gone too. She left at the end of the season.

Good point. Though it seems like Philip himself automatically thought of the job as a bad thing.

Lev Gorn! I wonder if he might show up at some point this season. He's in Moscow too.

Henry's 13. Unless they do a massive time jump there's no college for him by next season.

Yeah, that's something that's funny. In the first season Elizabeth and Claudia were praised for being the ideological ones while Philip was more about family because it was challenging gender roles. But then they run into the idea that making the woman the bad guy is sexist.

I don't know if it was her idea. It came off of Philip sadly saying that he never knew his own parents, so my guess is that he feels he's giving something to Paige here the same way he did when he sent her to Germany to meet Grandma. But of course he doesn't see it as perfect as Elizabeth does.

Yup. But they're amused that everyone keeps thinking they're going to take it down in the show. Their view is that whatever it was, it's a place where Philip can get something sort of like therapy so he's getting something out of it.

I don't think his job would necessarily be that shitty. I think they said he worked in a factory, but if he wasn't very academically inclined or whatever maybe it's just a steady job that's fine.

Elizabeth did the same thing when Betty asked her. She said her name was Elizabeth even though she later said her mom was in Russia. In Philip's case he didn't even realize that Martha had figured out he was from Russia, possibly.

I think they totally could. They travel a lot, which is normal. Plus there was someone once somewhere that talked about working for small business owners and said yeah, they're often gone a lot. And to be fair we do see them at the agency a lot, one or both of them. It does seem to be their default place to be during…

Yes! That was my question too. I guess the idea is that there was so little that three extra bread rations was all he was doing it for? (Which would maybe connect to Philip feeling like he's doing this for very little good.)

I don't think we know that he's agnostic on that. The showrunners once described him as having the Socialist Cause "bred into his bones." It's just not his priority.

You should ask them that the next time they show up. ;-)

I think we're basically just talking about semantics but seeing the same people. Because, like, for me I'm not sure why Elizabeth would be more independent since she's constantly working for the approval of her superiors while Philip is the one who questions and challenges them.

Anybody in the KGB is valuable—Oleg even has a father who's very important.