I posted this in the thread about High Fidelity, but it applies here - the goal in any good work is to move beyond people being 'good' or 'bad', but seeing them as people/characters who just 'are'. Stan is a generally 'good' man who did a very bad thing out of anger and pain and has to carry that for the rest of his…

On the movie clue wouldn't the actual title be "The Divergent Series: Allegiant"?

His appearance on Archer as a Welsh terrorist is a highlight.

Murphy only directed PvOJ - he didn't write any of it and I think that was to its benefit. I find his writing often suffers from tonal whiplash - he veers wildly from scene to scene and is often not skilled enough to make the transitions work.

I think the book's and movie's point is that Rob is a guy like any other - he's not a good or bad guy; he's just a guy who is capable of both like all of us. The most direct line is when he tells of his assholery re: Laura's abortion. He admits he fucked up and then looks straight into the camera and asks the viewer…

You're missing "daughter stabs villain in femoral artery with butterfly knife he gave her".

"She needs your help… and your love", "Leeloo Dallas mooltipaz" and "the stones are in me" get a lot of usage between me and the wife.

This is the same woman who played the warden in Death Race - maybe Allen just likes to play in the mud every once in a while.

(in singsong voice) "You're a fuck-ing psy-cho!"

She'll always be Patty Pryor to me.

This show isn't on FX, though? It's on WGN.

After a childhood of having nothing but Mom-bought wheat bread in the house, I treasure being able to go out and buy white bread for myself.

The combo works but I usually just put it openfaced on toast/bagels/pancakes - basically any breakfast bread product.

It's the blonde hair - she's very clearly a brunette and is usually filmed as one so the change is jarring.

It's far more likely that they would just disappear if Stan or Matthew caught wind. Killing an FBI agent and his child would basically be an open declaration of war - remember how Gaad let Stan off the leash and murder Vlad without punishment when Philip killed Amador.

That was Zanaida, the 'defector' who came over in the airline shippping crate in season 3. The first time Stan and Oleg teamed up was to expose her in hopes of swapping that intel for NIna's safety. They ambushed her in her hotel room.

And even then, it wasn't as shitty as Tuan's.
"At least you had a house."

I think this episode intentionally referenced the pilot on that - his sly affection for country music as an allusion to his defection feelings is one of the first things we learn about him (ex. the line dancing in the mall).

Would P & E even know about it though? They were both born either during or just after WWII. That wasn't taught in Soviet schools or spoken about publicly. Neither of them is from Ukraine and the actual stats are incredibly hard to calculate because of the intense lockdown on data by the Soviet government.

I think it's more corporate espionage/dirty tricks and the Russians are confusing it with the international kind.