Watched this, then headed to Netflix. They probably could've included Ep 6 "Man on the Street" as well, IMO the first really good episode is Ep 8 "Needs."

I gave up during Season 3, though the show started to lose me when Fitz smothered the Supreme with a pillow. I was supposed to be rooting for a President who commits murder with his bare hands because of his daddy issues? The stuff about stealing the election was compelling but once Papa Pope and B-whatever took over…

I feel like we need a special Pastor Tim section for the Wig Report. Will we see Pastor Tim's hair actually move next week when he goes missing?

Honestly, it was so LOUD and just wanted it to go away. It felt forced to me, and would've worked better if it had been used once only, at the very end, and more in the background.

Um, I don't see people pining for a fairy tale happy ending. Pretty much everyone here who didn't like the finale found it was clumsy and somewhat heavy handed, not ambiguous or nuanced, like the show and character were at their best. Pretty much everyone expected Alicia ends up neither a wife nor good, the execution…

A character she has literally nothing in common with, has had maybe one scene together outside of the office, and whose mainly existed to tell Alicia to go for it with Jason. If anything, Lucca is Jason's friend. I get what you're saying but Lucca is such a barely sketched out character she's more like a FB only…

I don't care about whether or not Peter goes to jail, and the finale was about that. I don't care about Diane's husband either, and the finale was about that. I really don't care which man Alicia ends up with - after Will was killed I thought it was blazingly obvious that she would end up alone because ending up with…

Alicia was a complicated human being. In this series finale she just came off as a b!tch, in a lazy way. I just found the whole episode to be about what happened to the two husbands - Kurt and Peter - not what happened to Diane and Alicia. Having Alicia screw Diane over then get punished by losing Jason was just too…

Yep, when she planted that pen she committed treason, potentially a capital offense, and now she's implicated in the murder of a federal agent related to her treason. She's so f*ck3d.

I don't know if there's any evidence that the samples we gave the Iraqis were used to gas Kurds (for example, I don't know if they were the same toxins) but we almost certainly helped Iraq develop and buy the rockets they used to deliver the gas to Kurds and Iranians.

IIRC we practically cut from blond girl to Claudia talking about recruiting Paige (or visa versa), and then we never see blond girl again. I don't think we're meant to know for certain if she's KGB, we're meant to understand that anyone *could* be KGB - Claudia makes that clear IMO - including one of her church pals.

There was a blond girl that road the bus to the protest with Paige who introduces herself and makes small talk with her, and there was a scene with Claudia that confirms Paige is being watched - has been watched - for some time, with the intent to recruit her into the program.

Watch Phillip's face and body when she moves - it stings, and you see him sink down very slowly and carefully, like he's trying not to frighten her.

"President Ronald Reagan initiated a strategic opening to Iraq, signing National Security Study Directive (NSSD) 4-82 and selecting Donald Rumsfeld as his emissary to Hussein, whom he visited in December 1983 and March 1984.[15] According to U.S. ambassador Peter W. Galbraith, far from winning the conflict, "the…

You do understand that the US actively supported Saddam Hussein during his war with Iran, officially taking Iraq off the list of state sponsors of terrorism and providing biological weapon samples to the Iraqis until 1989, don't you? Donald Rumsfeld was the US emissary to Hussein and visited Baghdad in '83-84, around…

So I take it you're not a fan?

Well, we know that there was an agent among the anti-nuke youths that Paige met when she traveled to a demonstration, so whether Pastor Tim is a mole or not, his church is infiltrated by Soviet illegals. Not a stretch to imagine there are FBI infiltrators around, too.

Well according to the googles and the wikis, Nixon gave a speech at Fort Detrick (yep, the same one) in 1969 officially ending the US's offensive bio weapons program and the stockpiles were destroyed in subsequent years, but the US continued a "defensive" bio weapons program and the CDC and a US non-profit (!) sent…

Ah, that makes sense. You see him again crossing the street and tossing a cigarette as they approach Dylan Baker on the park bench in the final act.

Apologies if this is discussed further down but the guy with the tweed beret seen in the vicinity of Dylan Baker was some sort of surveillance, no? I noticed him take off his hat just as Dylan Baker's character walked by him (in front of the flower shop) and was sure that's what made Phillip abandon the meet up. I…