Stan copping to the Kosigin murder is ridiculous—his character would never do that.

Very uneven episode.
Best: Oleg trying to convince his Colonel not use use a son in Afghanistan as leverage.
Worst: Stan's confession to the Kosigin murder. Stan would never do that.

92% odf statistics are made up on the spot.
—Steven Wright (attr.)

I thought it was Michael Jackson…

Tuan is a plant from Vietnamese intelligence on loan to KGB, they way Lucia from Nicaragua was.

Just an amateur fellow traveler.

Correct.
My Moscow MIL first sw the word in the 90s, and it sounds so funny to her ear.

I was hoping for rodeo intercourse where PHILIP has her from behind, screams "Oh Martha!!!" partway through, and sees if he can stay on for eight seconds…

Tuan is so dead. Just like Lucia, KATE, Jared's parents, WILLIAM, Irina … the other agents always eat it one way or another.

C'mon… she's found the shop with the best fresh citrus in all of Moscow…

Or Red Dawn… or all 14 hours of Amerika, or…

Tuan's dead.
All the other agents always die.

Isn't Paige too much of a born-againer to go on the pill?

It beat's PHILLIP's KGB sex school…

Here I was hoping they'd teach Paige how to snap Matthew's neck…

They used "In the Air Tonight" in the pilot.

Not saying it'll work, but I think GABRIEL and CLAUDIA are banking on the KGB picking Mischa off before Mischa finds his father.

Throwing this out there: If living across the street from an FBI agent is such a PITA, why don't they move?

Food lines weren't common yet, but lines for stuff like toilet paper.

The other agents always die. KATE, the girl from Central America, the family killed by their son, WILLIAM, Fred, Hans, Elise, etc.