The best part of Paige's reaction was the combination of marvel and terror over the calm with which her mother killed a guy. That led her to the suspicion that this had to be something her mother had done before.

Yeah, seriously: how many times is she going to play the "I watched you kill a man" card?

Yeah. Back in S1, part of me wished that they'd have let Reagan die in the Hinckley episode, establishing this as an alternate history where they'd have the freedom to mess around with historical events. Given that they opted against that approach, the Challenger crash should just be something the characters watch on…

The scene where Fassbender takes down the Nazis in the bar is the best use of Magneto's powers in the whole series: simple, brutal, and elegant. The closest runner-up is the prison break in X2.

Yeah. There was a short period of time when people didn't seem to have realized that giving Ray Park lines to speak in a movie isn't a good idea.

To be fair, most of the times when he's blamed others it's because he was the credited screenwriter on a project that got heavily rewritten. Since Hollywood screenwriters getting treated like dirt isn't news, his candor about those projects is noteworthy. Most of those interviews, I think, were given at a time when he…

Last Stand has one moment in it that promised a much better movie than we got. Magneto's crew shows up at Jean Grey's house, and Wolverine goes to stop them. And someone (I think Juggernaut) uppercuts Wolverine, sending him crashing up through the ceiling, and then crashing back down through the ceiling again several…

Yup. I thought for a minute Oleg was going to look at one of those photos and remark on the O-rings not appearing quite right.

Yeah, this is not the kind of apology a publicist writes for you. Not that a nice apology wipes the slate clean of the mean stuff he said, but we've read enough publicist-written nonapologies to tell the difference between someone being forced to apologize by their minders and someone waking up the next morning,…

I'd bet it wasn't much of a dumptruck. It's not like Fox has been lighting the world on fire with her non-Bay work.

Yeah, Tatiana's "joke" was a really mirthless piece of gallows humor.

The only conversations with Gabriel that I truly think we can take at face value are his discussions with Claudia. There's plenty up with him (he is, after all, a senior citizen focused on smuggling germ warfare samples out of the country). However, his chats with Claudia seem to indicate that some bit of the fatherly…

Yeah, one of the great things about the structure of the show is that we see the Jennings family, and we see the Rezidentura, but we almost never see the two interact. There's always been a missing step between the two between Claudia/Gabriel and Arkady/Oleg/Tatiana, so when their stories intersect (Tatiana asks Oleg…

I don't think the smile in that scene is Elizabeth appreciating Paige's game, because I don't think that Paige was actually working Matthew in that scene. That's the little smile of seeing Paige smitten with a cute boy, the "my little girl's growing up" smile.

Oleg was the core of the episode. That look of frustration as he's staring at the table covered with pictures of the Challenger's booster rocket just said it all. He's on tilt, unmoored. And in the end, Stan's the only person he can really talk to.

The only objection I have is that if Paige kills Pastor Tim two seasons from now, it means that this season can't end with Henry killing Tim and Alice, and then getting into a Ford LTD driven by Claudia.

Oh, Jared!

The cavalier way that shows kill certain types of people without consequences is an irritant to me only matched by the way that such things often work out in real life, so I absolutely see where you're coming from. I just have great confidence in the Americans to not just use that incident as a plot device—if nothing…

Maybe Patty could've gotten into his office, but she probably couldn't have been left there alone. If she'd have gone into his office and drugged him, he'd know something was up when he regained consciousness (I doubt Don drinks on the job). Plus, Elizabeth is not a "computer expert" so if even she'd gotten access to…

Great point, but I suspect Elizabeth's ethic of leaving no witnesses is much stronger than her concern over the intensity of the police response. It's not a matter of the legality of her actions (that was justifiable homicide all the way), but rather the fact that she can't face public scrutiny.