100%.
Just stretching stuff out to fill contracted episodes.

"A"? Really?
Ten minutes of a wedding and ten minutes developing pictures of a diary?

They already wiped out the Rezidentura, so…

I'm betting Rhys could manage it for one.
His American accent is pretty flawless.

Tell that to the lot in Kengir…

Re spoiler text: too soon… about eight years too soon…

Like chappie's gf from the pilot episode?
Oh.

I don't know. Martha left in a hurry.
At least Annaliese got packed.

The one thing that bugs me about the show:

I don't watch TWD, but I'm also reluctant to buy the argument that "X is OK because at least X is better than Y".

I think the set budget has been cut overall but a TASS-set shouldn't be expensive.

I guess if I was Paige, that'd make me melancholy, or troubled, or distressed.

There's no evidence in the show that GABRIEL was a camp guard.
He talks with CLAUDIA about working during the 30s purges, how his best friend was hauled away for no reason.
He tells PHILIP that PHILIP's father was a camp guard, but does not refer to him as a colleague—only that it meant PHILIP "came from a trusted…

Absolutely.
They had three seasons of material, maybe four, and they got an order for six seasons.

GABRIEL was not a vamp guard.
He was NKVD.

Her emotional range goes from "morose" to "depressed" to "sad".

Paige needs murdering so PHILIP and ELIZABETH will have to find the killer.

If Sofia is to be believed, TASS employee Yuri Tchakuk is Soviet Military intelligence (GRU).

Yep… way too slow.

The Greeks got everything over with in 24 hours, the Unity of Time.