Ugh, my bad. I've had James Wan on the brain lately.

No, the Axanar guys—who are legally in the wrong, but not necessarily morally in the wrong—filed a document by a court-required deadline. If they hadn't filed that document—or gotten an extension of their time to do so—they would've lost the case by default. They also included a counterclaim, which is something…

…and Elliot Kalan as the made-for-podcast knockoff, the Contest Ruiner.

I think you're making it more convoluted than it is. Think of it this way: Irina and Philip both join the KGB. They probably expect to be legal Rezidentura workers, but they turn out to be really good at English, and get picked to be candidates for Directorate S.

Good call!

Why does anyone have a baby? Maybe she wanted one. We don't know how long she stayed behind raising Mischa, only that she eventually became a Directorate S officer—that could've happened five, ten (or more) years after Philip left. The postwar USSR was full of people who'd been raised by extended family or even by…

I don't think it's that crazy. Let me give it a shot:

On a serious note, Russell's pregnancy plays well in this episode. She spends the whole episode looking like someone who's exhausted and uncomfortable. A lot of that's her usual, brilliant, acting, but a few moments, like the wince when she sits at the kitchen table with Paige, make it clear that the baby bump has…

I think it was mentioned in the podcast where Rhys is interviewed, for the episode of the show he directed.

"Can I get you a coke?"

The great thing about shows like this is they make you imagine more show than you get, so I totally understand where you're coming from.

William oozes out of America, first in a rush, then a trickle.

She's had a crush on him since back in his days with the band, but yeah, that ambiguity is going to drive next season.

She wielded that dry cleaning as if it was Captain America's shield!

Agent A's superpower is that he has no life, and an infinite capacity for going over paperwork and chasing down leads. But he's not so great with the human-to-human interview skills.

Agent A's superpower is that he has no life, and an infinite capacity for going over paperwork and chasing down leads. But he's not so great with the human-to-human interview skills.

Ugh. No. Please don't drag that real life shit in here.

That's gonna be a shit-ton of light bulb that goes off in that scene, as Stan recalls all the shit he told Philip that wound up being actionable intelligence, up to and including telling him that Gaad was vacationing in Thailand.

If you've ever heard the podcast the creators do, I'd say that's not terribly likely. Apparently, one of their sources actually had a wife who had to be exfiltrated, and he went on and on to them about how well she was treated in the Soviet Union.

Totally looking forward to Oleg and Martha hooking up in Moscow, completing the "has slept with someone who's slept with someone" link between Stan and Philip.