Anyone else catch Alla Kliouka (Svetlana from the Sopranos) as the store manager? IMDB tells me she was also in the Americans episode "Lotus 1-2-3;" I totally missed her there…

Ha! Too funny! I just typed the exact same thing upon reading that, before I saw you had done it…

And the baby looked at you? :)

Damn, what an ending… When the camera lingered on them that long on a simple walk to the car, I predicted to myself that Elizabeth was going to have to pull out her skills to flatten a mugger/would-be rapist, and that that would become a new source of inner turmoil for Paige. But…wow. Paige is definitely going to…

I agree; on the one hand I was very disappointed in their lack of ingenuity in setting up that ploy to get into the office. But on the other hand, I was relieved that it didn't involve more directly emotionally shattering poor Young-Hee…I have to say, that whole arc—though I think it's good for the story—really…

Ugh…I can't believe they used the ending from "Ghost" (to get rid of Zoom)…so lame.

I've never seen a "next episode preview," and I'm glad. The, er, um, "source" that provides the video files I watch apparently chooses never to include it.

Talk about your Gilligan-verse. Who else could clearly hear Giancarlo Esposito slowly and deliberately enunciate that word "DON'T" in their mind, the moment we see it on the note?

"…on or about the morning of"…I love it, Chuck just can't turn off the lawyer in him. I'm surprised he didn't say, "Permission to treat the underpaid, graveyard shift copy store clerk as hostile!"

It's fun trying to figure out how the outcome of Mike's caper might explain things that turned up in Breaking Bad (much more fun than watching, say, George Lucas' fumbling and self-contradictory attempts at revisionist history in the Star Wars prequels). I've been thinking, just what are the stakes here? What…

Lester's "E/A/B Mashup" reminded me of this (in spirit, at least):

Yep, "pants" is exactly what I've always heard, too. I also always thought that other line was "I'm not the kind I used to be, I gotta get a .33 baby" (hey—it would help get those "jerks off her back" when she's trying to get from the cab to the curb…)

Apropos of nothing (at this this early in Season 2), I was channel-flipping last night and ran into a scene from Law and Order: Criminal Intent featuring both D'Onofrio and the woman who plays Madame Gao (Wai Ching Ho)…she was a police lab tech.

"What was hair metal if not an endless parade of intensely heterosexual men singing about heterosexual sex while tarted up like Sunset Strip streetwalkers? " Brilliant, just brilliant.

I just gotta say, I spent countless hours dancing to the Armand Van Helden remix of "Professional Widow" in clubs in the late 90s—I had never heard the original—and there is no way I would have known that Tori Amos song had anything to do with the remix if you hadn't just told me….

This is exactly [one of the reasons] why The Americans is such good entertainment: even though we know logically that nothing really bad is going to happen to the stars, the show still manages to put us on the edge of our seats with anxiety every single episode.

Remember, as they said in the interview, it's not just whether or not a piece of music existed in that time; often the question is "would these characters actually listen to it, or be aware of it?" They are in suburban DC, after all…

Slyvia's "Pillow Talk"…some bad memories there, man…'twas the soundtrack of my dad's mid-life crisis, replete with dyed hair and multicolored polyester faux-silk shirts…he's been gone 26 years now, and I do miss him, but I still feel the waves of embarrassment wash over me when I hear that song and remember him…

It's called age, son…get back to us when you're over 50 :)

That has got to be (lyric-wise) one of most bizarre "Christmas songs" I've ever heard…