I thought she internalized it too quickly for me to believe it. Her anger was too adult, even for a kid in her position.

I thought we were seeing her through Stan's eyes just for a second there and she looked like she needed help. I thought it was really clever how they did that because right before and right after she didn't look like that; she just looked intense and a little freaked out, but just for that second we saw how Stan…

There's a big difference between thinking the Soviet union is maybe not so bad and thinking that spying is a-ok.

By 1985 we were all about the Russians loving their children too.

And it was low down and dirty of the show to keep that from us.

All of Stan's gut intuitions — the Jennings, Martha, Zinaida — have been correct. But he is so traumatized by his undercover experience that he doesn't know how to trust himself. He's not a bad agent it's just that he's caught between being a good agent and being a decent human being. So he's sort of neither.

If Pastor Tim were trying to get between Paige and her parents he wouldn't have had that conversation with Philip. It was awkward and maybe a little presumptuous on PT's part to say what he said but a really manipulative person wouldn't try to clue the parent in to the fact that the kid is upset about something. Which…

If you mean the one about victim-culture then yes it was very interesting.

There should be a director with a pony tail who says "I drink. I black out and don't remember some things. But I do a good job. Unlike some people in here."

I love my dad a lot but I never sat his English Dept credentials next to me at the school lunch table. I feel really shitty about that now.

And Chad too.

Not to excuse anything, but wasn't it because he missed the boat? And there would be more of those guys coming for him?

What really got me about this episode was how clearly it was telegraphed at the beginning that neither Frank nor Ray was going to survive. This made it so that after the heist I couldn't let myself feel suspense or even engagement without feeling like a sucker. So the experience of watching after the heist was just…

Yeah, but the camera lingered on them and they looked at each other in a shady criminal way so we knew Frank was fucked.

I thought it was muddy as hell. After piling on that this is a world where you never know the truth about anyone we're supposed to believe that one plucky journalist is all it takes? Was that really what that ending was about?

I liked how Osip just happened to be the last guy alive at the big cabin heist.

Yes, I am one of those people. Info dumps make plots incoherent. An incoherent plot is in no way an unpredictable plot.

Watching McAdams try to pull off "cascading betrayals" to the reporter at the end was like watching Pizz punch her in the face after all the stellar work she did with his sorry-ass dialogue.

I think there is just nothing consistent about the writing of the Alexandria people. The town has a "cut and run" plan, but Deanna doesn't seem to be aware of it because she has a "no execution or jail or anything" plan. The town is full of industrial engineer types and foragers who — sit on their porches all…

Sail.