I don't even think I was close to suggesting that somebody needs the KGB to start a business, honestly. Just that for Philip and Elizabeth the KGB is what laid out this opportunity for them. That was their experience in life. The fact that they had the raw ability to be good business owners and are doing the work of…

See, this is what confuses me because i think there have been some cues that he emphasizes scripture as the be all and end all. The first thing Paige did after showing up was start reading the Bible, and later we saw her studying one that was full of stickies. She also mentioned going to a weekly Bible study where it…

What does that mean?

This conversation is making me think that Philip and Elizabeth would probably really enjoy The Wire. :-) Don't know if you've watched it, but it's all about showing systems in the US being inefficient and not helping the people they're supposed to help.

LOL! For me it's just that I love this show so much and think about it so much I've retained a lot of details—usually I would never know this stuff! But sometimes the show's given exact dates and they stuck with me. In the pilot, I think, they flashed the years on screen and showed P&E meeting in 1962 and then it said…

But the seed money is the exactly the thing they wouldn't have had. The KGB made sure they have the means to start a business and the skills and education to runt i. It would also make sure that business was always in the black. They are paid well by the KGB (if we're going by reality—and I think we should be here)…

He and Elizabeth came to the US in 1965.

Which computer do you mean? The Jennings have one computer that Henry uses and Stan doesn't. It's actually already been used enough to satisfy Chekhov, imo. Henry's constant video game playing in view of his parents is part of why they think all he cares about is video games, and it's sometimes used as something he…

I have to say, while I do think she's supposed to be looking at him differently now, the idea that this guy could be Gregory 2.0 seems absurd to me. The guy doesn't know Elizabeth at all, she can't talk to him as herself, has never had a conversation with him as herself. She's relaxed around *Philip*, with whom she…

That's generally how it appears to me too. The socially progressive stuff doesn't seem weird to me at all, it just seems like at other times they put things in for dramatic reasons that are pulled from somewhere else.

Yeah, I sometimes wonder about Philip and Elizabeth and how they think they would have fared as children of poor single mothers. As it was they were plucked out for their talent. In the US? Not sure. They might have succeeded just fine due to their talents and initiative. But many other equally talented people in the…

I think the guy you're thinking of might actually be Greek. They mentioned him by name once. Philip says they're all actual employees.

Back in S1 I think Nina explained herself as being a younger generation of Soviet than Nicolai who was more open to enjoying the pleasures of Western life without guilt.

LOL! I would so not trust her. "The doctor said I had to be truthful and you told me to go to the psychiatrist! I told him everything! He promised he wouldn't tell!"

The producers don't have to ignore any science to not think Philip is being a fool. The EST guy is telling him to think about why he does what he does, and define himself by something besides the roles he's supposed to play. So he's becoming more self-aware. That's what he's getting out of it. This does not at all…

Yes, this is the way I always imagine Philip thinking. Even in this season, when he hears, for instance, Alexei talking about the way things are run, I don't assume this makes Philip think capitalism is better. I assume he's just accepting that his country's system has a lot of incompetent people not doing their jobs…

I see that…well done?

True, I think it's got to be a possibility.

What's stupid about it? It's totally realistic for someone to be able to get something out of a crank psychotherapy cult despite it being a crank psychotherapy cult. There was I think even somebody here once who was into EST and said they did get something out of it even though they agreed with what Elizabeth said…

Reading that article I thought the same thing-this show makes the most out of that kind of gulp!