Except leave out the supernatural and spy elements, and those things could happen, even to the same person (as linked by someone upthread: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…. Is it likely? No, but it's not entirely impossible. Peggy herself is not likely, but possible. That's kind of what the appeal of the show is to me.

Well if Wilkes served in Europe he would likely have seen and could have been a black American solider openly dating a white British woman during the war. Yes it's after the war and back in the United States so different stakes and greater risks, but it's not inconceivable that the idea could have occurred to him, and…

Thanks for the link to Dr. Percy Julian. I also was thinking the fact you mentioned that they were all WWII veterans and while Wilkes might not have put himself out there at the outset so openly for a white woman from the US (before getting to know her a bit), the fact that Peggy is British and former military may…

They wouldn't have reacted at the club because that was an actual historical place where black and white people mingled.

yeah it's the Dunbar Hotel https://en.wikipedia.org/wi… . Very swank and a celebrity magnet, meeting place for black society but also popular with white people.

Pretty sure last season when Jarvis told Peggy about her he said he met her in Budapest (and smuggled her out because she's Jewish)

Just watched it streaming on amazon prime as a rental. Also looks like it's on vudu and itunes.

I turned on the captions at first until I could follow. Also they repeat the same slang again and again so it's easier to pick up. I think the director did that intentionally? Anyway it's hilarious so the extra effort was worth it.

Yeah this. Because 15 year old orphans with little adult supervision who appear to be living on what they can scrounge/steal and protecting their more vulnerable friends are irredeemable scum or something…