Well, at least a choice between her orders and Paige, it's clear Paige wins. There's no evidence that Elizabeth likes, much less loves, Henry, other than the fact that she hasn't killed him yet :)

I was in a Catholic middle school. I came in the next day shaken and wanting to talk about it, and the teacher's response was, "We don't think your parents should've let you see that." End of discussion.

The big advance in that came in the previous episode, when Elizabeth was quarreling with both Philip and Paige, and the one person she thought to turn to was Young Hee (Henry, as always, is invisible in this equation). You could tell Elizabeth wasn't faking in the scene at the movie theater, it wasn't just work to her…

The Manhattan Project wasn't particularly small, and the decision to drop the bomb had to go through the military, who would be called on to execute it. Eisenhower and MacArthur both opposed the decision, considering it militarily unnecessary.* Admirals Halsey and Nimitz likewise. Even Curtis LeMay, who was lampooned…

Not excruciating so much because of the effect on the victim (Don, a character we barely know) but because of the effect on the perpetrator (Elizabeth, who we've been following for multiple seasons). We've seen Elizabeth kill methodically, cold-bloodedly, and at least a couple of times, regretfully; just last episode…

So nuking two Japanese cities was a concern troll move? "We were so worried about you starving that we vaporized 100,000 of you and left another 140,000 or so to slowly die of radiation poisoning. I know what you're thinking, but it was really for your own good. Anyway, you're welcome."

Yeah, a few episodes back they green screened some iconic DC background into one of Elizabeth's payphone calls during the search for Martha—it was the least convincing thing I've seen this show do.

I could've sworn they were mentioned (and mentioned as living) in S1, in the episode where he hooks up with his baby mama and/or the episode where Philip and Elizabeth reveal their birth names to each other. However, I'm pretty sure you're right that there haven't been mentions of Philip ever getting letters (or…

I think so. IIRC, it wasn't hard so much as glitchy (maybe the area marked as a landing site made the chopper blow up?), with super-sluggish controls. Subsequent entries improved the chopper mechanics considerably.

…And the hair. Even for the early 80s, she has an older person's haircut.

Yeah, but the parking lot from Paige's driving lesson in the cold open was at Rye Playland, right?

Watching those reactions reminded me of the episode of Mad Men where Don takes his son to see Planet of the Apes.

Well, they're not doing it because they consider themselves stateless. The central assumption whenever this argument comes up is, basically, "Who could possibly go back to the Soviet Union after living in America?" For someone like Elizabeth, who has real ideological issues with how things work in the US, it's not…

If you look at her face as Don apologizes and gets dressed as quickly as possible, it didn't seem to be the desired effect. It's possible he gives in to extortion to keep Young Hee from finding out, but it seems risky as hell.

Of the Allies, the Soviets disproportionately contributed to the German defeat, and disproportionately suffered the casualties. Those casualties weren't "needless," given that—unlike the U.S.—the Germans had invaded their country, and posed an existential threat to its existence.

…and your mom wasn't even employed by her country to try to bring this one down, or have much reason to consider this country an enemy of Portugal. The fact that Philip and Elizabeth continue to lie and kill in defense of the USSR is a pretty good indication that they don't consider themselves Americans.

Many people argued against using nukes against the Japanese. Dropping the bomb at that stage in the war was expedient—the projections for how many lives it would cost to invade Japan were pretty high—but it wasn't necessary. The Japanese were losing either way.

She would've gotten him tortured again…

I interpreted the end as Elizabeth admitting mission failure given that Don didn't take to the honeypot. So yeah, they may have some bad marriage moments, and Don will suffer some completely unjustified guilt. Still better than having those little girls attend their mother's funeral.

Don's seduction/setup was more excruciating than any of the murders on this show, worse than Elizabeth killing off the Robot repair grandma last season or Philip seducing the teenager (what happened to that storyline?). I think Erik hit it right on the head when he said that the most comparable thing was fitting…