The Militant (a publication of the Socialist Workers Party) was just a serendipitous sign that Gabriel could recruit her. If it was meant to be a signal that she was an illegal KGB asset, she wouldn't have used something that identified her as a communist.

We had one like what you're describing but there were three rows of channels. This must have been when we got HBO and Showtime etc.

Our remote back then was a console attached to the cable box by a wire.

Wouldn't that make Tim and Alice more suspicious that Phillip and Elizabeth were dangerous? They have to keep Paige, Tim and Alice all on the same page here: we're a loving family who just have a side job (hobby, really) of helping the same liberal causes you love. Please don't tell on us.

There were several separate but close-in-time incidents: first, the September 1, 1983, Soviet shootdown of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, supposedly accidental but claimed by the USSR as a possible US provocation to start a war; the September 26, 1983, false-alarm malfunction of the Soviet early-missile-warning system…

I got it on Netflix, b/c although I was 9 when the movie came out, my parents apparently heavily sheltered me and I have no memory of it being aired (ex.: no memory of the Reagan assassination attempt, only remember the Iran hostages because of a school assembly, but definitely remember the US beating the USSR in the…

The US already had nuclear missiles in Turkey, so how in Soviet eyes would putting missiles in Cuba be much different?

The only person on here who mentioned "panic" was the same person apparently too young to know that The Day After was not only a real film from 1983, but a major event and the highest-rated TV movie of all time. So don't take his word for it.

If he were to commit suicide before Elizabeth gets access to Level 4, that would make the operation fail. The idea is that she's going to blackmail him so that Elizabeth gets the info and Young-hee never finds out.

She did try to find another way — she was trying to buy time by imploring Lisa to go to a meeting with her. Only when it was clear that wasn't going to work did Elizabeth kill her.