I'm really hoping that this is one of those shows where the main characters (and/or their actors) get the chance to radically improve over the years, like Olivia in Fringe or other examples I can't think of right now. I kind of like Joe, but I was always hoping to get a little more insight into him, he often seems…

As in a character from T.C. Boyle's Budding Prospects.

He's the one that I thought was terrible (although by the end of the season I've warmed up to him). In my opinion he sounds the most like Americans imagine a Nazi officer should sound, as opposed to what actual Germans will sound like when they speak English.

I had a blast watching this, but I'm really looking forward to the in-depth reviews. This is not meant as a negative comment on the binge-recaps, but at multiple times I found myself questioning motivations or logic behind some plot developments, but I was already loading up the next episode and couldn't give it too…

You are right, Smith is definitely American. Heydrich asks him if his kids already speak German and he answers that they're far better than he has ever gotten at it.

I also like the Japanese dialogue, but I don't quite understand the rules for when they use it. Sometimes conversations start in Japanese and then switch to English, which I assume implies that they are actually still talking in Japanese, but it's being babelfished to accommodate for the audience or the non-Japanese…

Ambassador Reiss was the German guy in San Francisco in the earlier episodes (https://d262ilb51hltx0.clou… the guy in the suit). He's probably the only one played by a native German speaker, I think the actor is from Austria. And yeah, you're right about Wegener and Heydrich.

I've got an accent challenge for you. As a non-native speaker I'm always a bit surprised when people complain about Brits playing American with bad or generic accents, as I usually don't pick up on it at all (I might be better off?).

I thought the dinner scene was very amusing, and the antique salesman has maybe become my favorite side character during this episode. However, I was not exactly sure what to take away from it. Did the Japanese couple just invite him to be friendly and to impress a local by their embrace of American culture, only to…

Here's a quote from the review "Overall, even a weak episode of the series is a strong episode of television". I would agree, as I've been enjoying the show a lot so far. I think some of the other commenters don't like it as much, but such is life. I have not read the book, fyi.

Unfortunately I played them in the wrong order. I really think I would have had a good time with BL1 if I had played it first, but this way almost every single aspect was just slightly (to moderately) worse than BL2. Also I don't think I'd ever play any Borderlands as a single player, but in a group of friends they…

Thank you.

Can't say that I've heard of the man, but that sounds like a solid rule to me.

The Beatles, definitely. I understand that they inspired a whole generation of musicians and were hugely influential. I mean, sure, at the time they probably were groundbreaking and exciting.

Yeah, great book! I always felt that some of Boyle's stuff would make for great cable drama adaptations, either as limited series or in some modified form: Water Music, World's End, Drop City, …