All of their missions carry that kind of risk. Think of last season's Don/Young-hee mission, which was a huge amount of setting up just to get Don out of his office for about an hour. He could have said, "Ok, I have the cash in my desk, no problem."

It had to be more than a one night stand if they were having motel rendezvous.

They were worried that the Morozovs' guard was suspicious, they mentioned it to Claudia. I suppose the Eckerts could say that they have to move at the end of the school year or something.

The age of consent under current Virginia law is 18, although it is possible it was different in the 1980s.

Was that playground accurate? It looked like they used a park in Brooklyn or Queens, removed all the molded plastic and safety mats, and installed something that looked like a Tetanus Rocketship.

Then there's some chronological problem here, because the "We Begin Bombing in Five Minutes" caper happened in August 1984.

It's been commonplace in the US for some time — not recent — to refer to anti-ethnic behavior or discrimination as racist.

I didn't see it as shooting down Kevin Sr.'s visions. From his point of view, Kevin Jr.'s journey worked. The flood stopped and he returned from the dead. He will go on to keep writing the Book of Kevin and the Word will spread (cf. last scene of S3E1). In "real life" it doesn't matter if anything Kevin did affected…

Big Love had five seasons, most of which received pretty good reviews. It was not a "flop."

Especially with President Kevin dressed in the all-white suit.

Perhaps spelling it "Pascha" would make them think of Easter.

I think he's the main pastor, not just the youth pastor. He's spent time abroad. His liberal mainline church is likely affiliated on some level with the World Council of Churches, which has always been left-leaning and was in fact KGB-infiltrated. They could have said to him something like, "We've seen the news about…

Oh we're supposed to read your mind now? How silly of me not to realize you were being facetious.
"I'll let it slide though… I'm sure you didn't realize what you were saying."

Just to be clear, you're anticipating post-apocalyptic society in a few years, but a violent Christian theocratic overthrow of the US government could never happen.

When I was in junior high school a few years after the setting of this season, a kid tried to throw me into the showers every gym class (we did not take showers after normal gym classes). I put up a fight and he never succeeded. But I never told any adult. It's not just who Pasha is, it's how schools were back then.

I have a feeling that after whatever happens to Pasha happens, people won't be seeing the Eckerts anymore. I mean the Eckerts will no longer "exist," the same thing that "Patty" did with Young-hee. And Tuan is not long for this earth. The good news for Philip and Elizabeth is that this fiasco may actually end up…

There isn't anything in the NT speaking directly to why Judas did what he did because Judas is portrayed as the villain. The "Iscariot" in his name, however, identifies him as supposedly belonging to the Sicarii, a group of ultra-zealots violently opposed to Roman rule over Judea. There are some timing problems as to…

This certainly makes sense from a Catholic perspective. The seven-headed monster is Rome, the city of seven hills, which was persecuting Christians at the time Revelation was written. Of course, in the 20th century you had evangelical offerings like Left Behind promoting a view that Rome would literally rule the world…

As a parent, sometimes if you don't laugh you'll cry. I don't think they were laughing like "haha, the hamster starved to death, that's hilarious."

It definitely seemed post-apocalyptic to me. No communication, different currency, travelling by bicycle [this last one is not necessarily apocalyptic obvs].