Serena is in a hell of her own making. Fuck her. Seriously.

As much as I loved the first season and as relevant this series is, I wonder more and more how sustainable the story is and what left there is to say. Would it have been better as a one-season adaptation of the book? Do we want a 1984 adaptation after this where Winston Smith rallies the proles to rebel?

I have the biggest crush on Kim. Not really into blondes, and I don’t usually go for skinny-ish women like her, but damn, she’s such a bad-ass. Love her. She’s the perfect foil for Jimmy, too. Keeps his bullshit in check and is just as smart and conniving as he is, although she’ll never admit it.

He absolutely thought he was doing the right thing by his best friend, Stan. I thought the last interaction between Stan and Phillip was heartbreaking, especially for Phillip.

That was actually my only issue with the scene while watching it too. Once it became apparent that he’d let them leave, I just kept thinking “Would Stan really do that?” Maybe his emotions over the situation could cloud the situation, sure... but certainly things like his first partner and Gaad were also weighing on…

Well yeah, Oleg was back in the USA without diplomatic cover, which was why he’s in a jail cell, like Stan said. But he’d be a perfect candidate to be exchanged, like the real Illegals were, or like how Col. Abel was exchanged.

The review nails the problems with this episode, easily the worst of the series for me and a huge letdown after last week’s excellence. The Moira story was the lamest, laziest possible attempt to not completely waste Samara Wiley as a cast member. And the return of Janine and Emily makes no sense whatsoever. I assumed…

“The only point that doesn’t ring true for me is Stan’s decision to let them leave the garage.”

It was, on the whole, a very good and fitting ending for the show.

That Paige got off the train made so much sense. I love my parents, but I’d get off the train to stay with my siblings, especially as an older sister.

That was so fucking tense. Even though the last 20 minutes was basically denouement, it wasn’t until the screen went to black that I was sure Philip and Elizabeth weren’t going to be shot. I kept thinking back to the “previously on the Americans” where Claudia tells Elizabeth her life’s work has been for nothing, and…

Paige’s utterly heartbreaking “I can’t” in hindsight (as obvious as it seems) is both not being able to say goodbye to Henry on the phone but also her life in the US. She has no concrete connection to Russia like Philip and Elizabeth do, only in some abstract ideological way, so getting off that train as much of a…

Earlier in the season, Stan made a point of saying that since Oleg wasn’t on a diplomatic visa or with the KGB’s support, he was shit outta luck. That said, they could probably figure out a way to get him home, particularly with his father’s influence and possibly if h is attempted-coup intel makes it back to…

I’ve had more issues with this final season than most - I do think there were some pacing issues and certain things were dragged out longer than they had to be.

That was a great bookend to a wonderful, wonderful show.

I have to say it is of greatest compliment that the show both wrapped up the story and left me wanting more. It felt equal measure satisfying and gut wrenching. I just felt my whole stomach drop when I realized Oleg was going to lose so very much. And Stan lost…

Almost as good was her pointed inability to call up a career for Philip.

I’ve never jumped from a commercial break like i did when the garage scene started. I’m so glad there was a break after the phone scene. I was in full tear mode. Bravo FX and co for 6 great years of tv.

As y’all have seen across this website & disqus I watch way too much tv, and am fickle with choosing favorites but I can say with 100% certainty that this is, hands down, the best television show I’ve ever seen.

Aside from finally seeing Serena flex this was such a bad episode. I don’t understand why these writers have eschewed basic sci fi world building. The show’s rich impressionistic tone doesn’t make up for confusingly vague or contradictory plot points or environments.

I didn’t care for the name-sharing scene. It felt completely unrealistic (and pretty hokey) to me. We’re really supposed to believe that, following the extreme group punishment in the opener and the violence following the explosion in which a Handmaid was known to be the culprit, they’re gonna violate Gilead law right…