It was OK to hire James Gunn when he was an indie writer/director who started at Troma, but not OK to keep him after these tweets? These tweets surfaced back when he was first announced as a director of GotG, and he already apologized for them.

This episode was excellent, up to the final couple of minutes that destroyed almost all faith I had in the writers’ ability to figure out what this show is all about. I was sure we are in for another cliffhanger towards the end of the escape sequence (which was very tense).

I haven't read the book, but the show's Waterford always looked to me like someone who would join a revolution not for ideals, but for the benefits that will come with being at the top of the new regime. He's a miserable creep, and it's obvious Serena was the brains of the Waterford couple.

Gilead doesn’t make much sense in general, to be honest. It is clearly based on real life examples (Iran, Saudi Arabia, for example) but Gilead’s regime is so batshit, it doesn’t make any sense. I mean, why would you ban half of your skilled and educated population from using their skills and education, if you want…

I hope it's the case, with Nuremberg type trials of Gilead heads afterwards.

More and more with each episode, this show behaves as if the writers have no idea what to do with the amount of episodes they were given. The result is still good, Gilead is still one of the most horrifying distopyas ever, all technical sides are great - but it does feel wheel-spinning.

Westworld is not as smart as the showrunners seems to think it is. It’s a robot uprising story, something that was done a million times in the past. The show tries to present this basic story with loads and loads of philosophizing, but in the end, it’s just robots having malfunctions in their brains.

The timing is suspicious, plus Eden saw the letters. I mean, beaides Waterfords and Nick, there weren’t a lot of other people on that trip (airplane pilot/s and whoever else is needed on the plane). The letters caused enough diplomatic damage to Waterford’s mission to lead to investigation.

Nick was not very careful with these letters. It’ll take about 5 minutes to figure out how they got to Canada.

Also, fuck Serena. I know the past couple of episodes try to paint her as a victim, but she’s not. She helped to bring this nightmarish world into existence. Only once she got beaten by Waterford, she is shown…

Her saying “my tebya lyubim, solnyshko” or something like that to Paige in the S3 episode where they tell her they are KGB spies, was so badly pronounced I had to rewind the scene to listen to it again. Russian is not an easy language to pronounce properly, but it’s possible to make it sound at least intelligible.

Keri Russel’s attempts at saying even the basic Russian words was always bad. Mathew Rhys was better at it, maybe because he’s bilingual.

The pro-Gorbachev faction won, apparently, since Arkady is alive and well and Gorbachev remained in power for anorher 4 years. Elizabeth will be fine.

The Moscow scene in the end was green screen.

They’ll be greeted as heroes, get a dozen of medals, goods jobs in KGB, an apartment in Moscow and lots more. These people not only led a very successful mission in USA for 20 years, they also played a part in preventing an anti-Gorbachev coup. Even when USSR falls, they’ll continue working for the new iteration of…

Well, maybe given time Henry would forgive, but it’ll probably take a long time.

I’ve always wanted Misha and Nadezhda to get back to USSR, only to see it go down in a few years and realize that everything they did was for nothing. Even saving Gorbachev was kind of pointless. USSR disintegrated 4 years after the events of this episode (almost to the day, IIRC Gorbachev’s final resignation speech…

I don’t remember hating a TV character as much as I hate Serena in a long time. Even Aunt Lydia, whom I’ll be glad to see dying a gruesome slow death, or Waterford, whom I’d like to see being hanged after Nuremberg-like trial of Gilead heads, don’t provoke such hate in me as this miserable hateful human garbage.

Seren…

Thanks for the correction. The American-born kids weren’t deported.

Let me try to predict the final episode:

I doubt he’ll do the full sentence. Yes, he was caught red handed with a dead drop message, and he’s a known KGB officer. However, it’s late 80's, the Cold War is ending, and he’ll probably go home soon in some prisoner swap.