So, did you tell MM that you recognized her and loved her from The Americans?!?!?!

That line also resonates in the conversation Elizabeth has with Claudia, when Claudia shares how she went home to the CCCP and visited her daughter, and her grandchildren didn't remember her.

I agree. I am on the edge of my seat each night, searching for hidden meanings in dialogue, extrapolating intent, looking at the little hints that the writers are dropping that are going to add up to a huge wallop of WOW!

Breaking Away…Renee went into a whole explanation about it being filmed at Indiana University & swimming in the quarry. Breaking Away came out in 1979, so maybe they were watching it on TV or on a VHS tape?

When I heard this I was thinking about Elizabeth's reaction to Paige breaking up with Matthew. She & Phillip had been pushing Paige to keep seeing Matthew so that they could keep tabs on Stan. I was surprised when Elizabeth acted more like Paige's mom, than her "handler".

Re: Oleg looking at a file, it was his mother's KGB file. "Burova" would be the feminine of "Burov", like "Navritilova" is the feminine of her father's name, "Navritil". Also, the heading on the file, ударственной безопасности, translated from Russian is like "Security and Safety".

AWCAMM! Award winning character actress Margo Martindale!

Right! "U of I" is more often used when speaking of the University of Illinois.

There was no "grass roots opposition" to Keane's presidency. It was all ginned up by the talk show host Brett O'Keefe at Dar Adal's behest, because Dar Adal and the clandestine services don't trust her and think she's going to expose them. So Dar Adal gets the talk show minions all hyped up on the highly edited…

The only movie I've ever walked out of: Maverick with Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster and James Garner. Went next door and saw "Four Weddings and a Funeral" for like the 5th time.

Nikolai Gogol statue in Moscow. His later writing satirized political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls). Fits in perfectly with Oleg trying to root out corruption in the USSR food chain system. And, a description of the statue and mindset of Gogol at the end of his life, is…

David Anders, who played Mr. Sark on Alias, is American and does an impeccable British accent.

I convinced my husband to watch it. He really likes it, but he doesn't want to watch it week by week. He wants to binge watch it at the end of a season. So I'm watching it now, and will binge watch with him, too….and then binge watch all 5 seasons before season 6 begins.

If it was, it is the perfect reference to Oleg's mindset/job. "…(Gogol's) later writing satirized political corruption in the Russian Empire (The Government Inspector, Dead Souls)."

That's exactly what I thought.

I also wondered if E was afraid that the MK lady might recognize her from the training sessions with Young Hee…wouldn't be uncommon for all of the sales people in a market to get together…

Common in CA in homes where there is no central heat….also, in Colonial times…

Philip personally may like middle class American life just fine (look at his leather bucket seats Camaro!) but he is clearly conflicted. When he is in bed with Elizabeth, he says pretty ruefully, "We have so many things."

Who is the lady on the park bench that Stan and Adderholt were talking to?

I think Gabriel was referring to what happened in the last episode ("Echo") of Season 3 when Phillip, despite being told by Claudia that they are under orders, confronted Arkady at a newsstand and told him to tell the Centre to back off. That they didn't want Paige to be the next Jared (the kid agent with the clean…