I'm terrible at math, so I was just going by his face, ha. But you are right, his age puts him squarely in that earlier generation- along with Philip and Elizabeth even, I think- that's ideologically divided from Oleg and Nina's.

There's no way Arkady is in his 50's or 60's(!). Lev Gorn, the actor, is 42 and looks no older than his age, so I assume that's Arkady's age too. That would still have him being born in the late 30's/early 40's, so everything else you mentioned about his character would apply.

That was one of the most confusing thing I had to initially figure out when I read Anna Karenina, plus all the diminutives (Ekaterina, Katyusha, Katya for Kitty. Really had to pay attention at first to be aware of who they were talking about now sometimes). So I guess we don't really know any of our main Russian…

A. I've given that grade to every episode so far this season, but when I'm as enamored of a show like I am this one, everything shines. I'd be a terrible critic.

A lot of times when Philip is Clark I find myself wondering what would happen if Martha ever happened to run into Philip out and about on the street. I know this is the large metro-DC area and they don't run in the same circles or anything, but it's not impossible.

I love reading every comment here for The Americans cause, like Mad Men, there are so many subtle things and unspoken moments that happen and I want to get other, intelligent people's read on them. I pretty much always learn something about the time-period that isn't part of the general history that gets passed on- if…

I'm almost 100% that she was, especially after people here answered my big question- where the f did salt-n-pepper guy come from- and they said he must have been watching the house (due to being Mossad). She must have been looking outside to after he left, or s-n-p guy and she had some communication device from the…

Shosh was totally cunty, right? I would've been like fuck you to that noise if I were Hannah.

I know she is a fucked-up, self-centered bitch, but I love Jessa, all the time. I also would love to play with her hair, like braid it and shit because it's fantastic.

Ha, ha, he's getting typecast as a 70's-ish kind of dude, I guess.

Got it. That makes sense, I forgot to take into account what exactly they were getting information on and who would care about things like that.

I just realized AV Club was covering this 2 episodes ago but I've been watching this since the beginning. I love these girls! I want to be their friends, lol, but I'll settle for just watching them be hilarious all the time.

Uh, what about a real, working personal hovercraft?!

What is the sitch there? Does Stan still live at home? Are they separated?

Paige is great, I really like the actress who plays her too. Too bad Mad Men wasn't on back then cause maybe that would give Paige an alternative theory as to why her parents have no family. Though snooping around to find it would still lead to the same presumably disastrous results.

This shows my naivete about Soviet spycraft, but did they actually have underage kids as spies? Or was that more likely a young-looking adult they had fake being a kid? I still lean toward that that's just an actual girl Paige clicked with though.

Unlike Todd, I never thought that was a real demented woman they were just using. I automatically assumed she'd just quickly thought of the right choice- act like you have dementia and it negates any questions and explanations that she might have had to try to play off. Come to find out that she didn't just pull that…

Yep. When he bared his teeth while asking her if she understood, we saw spy Philip, the one who could kill an innocent busboy kid if he had to, not dad Philip. Only Paige isn't privy to that distinction, yet.

That was some very affecting sobbing from the boy.

This was a full A for me. It was jam-packed and so many moments were can't-look-away compelling (I think that's probably the word I use the most to describe this show, need to change it up).