That was some pretty showy fighting, more than you’d learn in your average self-defense class. I think people who were there would be talking about the girl who kicked two guys’ asses for quite a while, and referring to Paige by name.

I thought, There goes Philip. He’s now just as bad as Elizabeth, and they can both die for all I care. But then he saves himself, something Elizabeth will never do.

Agreed. And it made me recognize (not for the first time) that this series belongs among the best ever. Was Breaking Bad better? I think The Americans is in that league.

He started out as a surly asshole, but his character grew. I thought Crawford was spectacular on that show. Always disappointing when an artist you admire turns out to be a douche in real life.

Pfft, this is what happens when your only plot tool, for years, has been to kill off all the interesting and/or sympathetic characters. And, to echo many sentiments expressed here, character development among the survivors has gone to crap.

I’m reading the book now, just to have the story stay with me.

Hat’s off to Adam Nagaitis (Hickey) as well. I’d never heard of him before. He knocks it out of the park.

Were subtitles provided for Inuit? I asked that question above.

Almost 100% sure this is a limited series.

Somebody help me, please! I did not watch this on AMC, and what I did watch did not provide subtitles for Inuit. Were there subtitles on AMC? Thanks for any info.

So did mine!

Though a pretty dark one ...

They’ve announced this is the final season. WTF, reviewer?

I immediately thought of the honey pots, which Elizabeth glossed over when Paige had inquired. That truth will have to come out, too. “No, Paige, we don’t just kill, we have to have sex with people, too, and I’ve done it more times than I can count. And so has your father.”

To me, that conversation illustrated how phony Philip and Elizabeth have been in interacting with their kids—just flipping on the “normal” switch at the drop of a hat and pretending that their dark lives don’t exist (and were, in fact, much more central to their identities). If I were Paige, that call would make me…

At this point, she is almost nothing *but* an ideologue. I think that’s what Philip was thinking when he watched her sleep.

I just had to laugh at how hideously they were selling Russia to anyone but the already heavily propagandized. Claudia: “It’s peasant food. They know how to survive. We’re always having droughts, famines, wars.” Elizabeth: “My mother used to make pots of this. We’d eat it for weeks.” Paige: “You never got sick of it?”…

It would be very in character for Elizabeth to die by her own hand. On her terms. Control freak that she is. :-)

Definitely.

15 Million Merits was a brilliant episode—original and disturbing in ways that few other episodes (except, in my opinion, White Bear and The National Anthem) have reached.