Um, "they" don't consider themselves a non-white ethnicity. There's no monolithic Jewish opinion, on this or anything else.

I can see that happening if it's one of the would-be terrorists. Because, you know, irony has to be heavy-handed on TV.

Max was lying about seeing Noah that night, yes?

I hate that the show made Laura such a caricature. But still: Shut up, Laura.

Exactly. I've been willing to suspend disbelief quite a bit this season because it's been pretty compelling stuff overall.

There were a lot of eyeroll-worthy plot points in this episode, and that one might have been the eyerolliest. Still, I found the episode fairly suspenseful and a necessary bit of stage-setting for the final push. Definitely better than a C.

Noah was almost…not sympathetic, exactly, but less loathable than usual during his session with Dr Cynthia Nixon. At least until I realized that he was just basking in the attention as he held forth about his favorite topic, Noah Solloway.

Yes, she did actually scream "I don't want this baby" at least once.

Although that scene skeeved me out more than I can even express, I have to say that Dominic West did a great job of expressing drunk/stoned/coked up lasciviousness with just a single expression. His eyes got heavy-lidded and his mouth was slightly open. The scene would have been incredibly creepy with any actor, but…

Astrid is pretty much my favorite non-main character ever.

This episode answered the burning question of how Noah Solloway could possibly be more of an asshole than he was already.

That doesn't make sense to me either, but I guess it's no more far-fetched than the entire rest of his storyline since he was rescued by the terrorists' roommate.

Great, tense episode other than the increasingly improbable Quinn storyline. I started the season assuming that eventually Carrie, Saul, and Quinn would converge and kick ass, but they're running out of time to bring Quinn in without making the convergence even more silly and contrived than Quinn's season has been…

"The fuck did I do?"

I may have been reading too much into it, but when she was walking through the market and spotted Allison at the table, I thought there was a moment when a look of doubt and suspicion crossed Carrie's face. Like maybe half the penny had started to drop.

The big reveal is going to be that Quinn is Rasputin.

She said "Holy Mary!" or something similar. This was the most confusing thing about the episode to me. If Allison was merely a nice young CIA agent who got herself set up by the Russians, how does it make sense for her to actually be Russian? I'm interested to see how that will be resolved.

Yeah, I expect some vintage Quinn badassery next episode as he takes them all out and turns them over to Dar Adal.

Ooh, I love this topic. And congrats on your impending offspring!

I agree about TV teens in general, but Whitney is completely plausible to me as a rich, spoiled NYC teen. (I know this because I was a not-rich, moderately spoiled NYC teen, and I knew my share of Whitneys.) Kids who grow up in that version of the city are a weird and sometimes scary combination of clueless, entitled,…