I'm watching the encore right now and it is in Cyrillic. Still, the two tickets thing was the obvious giveaway. Actually, no, the other scientists giving her the "way to go" nod was obvious. I half-expected them to start slow-clapping.

The show also doesn't tend to do twinkly "uplifting" piano music like the kind playing as Nina walked out of there. I knew she had to be doomed the second Oleg made that agreement to stay in Russia. There's no way the show would keep Oleg there.

I definitely have programmed expectations too, because I spent the scene expecting Stan to knock on the door, at which point he would see Sandra in the background and have all his suspicions seemingly confirmed.

I noticed that too (*bones crunch* or something), but I couldn't actually hear anything to that effect.

I was really hoping they would wrap it up in this episode by just killing her off already. Wring some emotion out of it while you can while she's having her crises of conscience, then refocus on the relationship between Oleg and Stan in some other way, because that has a lot more potential. I like the dynamic of Oleg…

Agreed on Dylan Baker. Paraphrasing, but I loved this exchange:
"Do you even know what level 4 is?"
"One higher than level 3?"

Yeah, drunkenness would definitely help me appreciate American Dad's silliness even more than I already do. Hell, my avatar is from the James Patterson episode: "Oh, right, when people talk, you don't see their words."

Exactly. It's not about Gene. She thought she was doing some ultimately harmless snooping for Internal and now, not only is Clark not an FBI employee, he's killing people to cover for her actions. She was tricked into spying by thinking she was doing it for her own team and now she's in deep shit.

I've been proud of how this show has cast their Russians. Arkady and Oleg could have easily been caricatures, but I'm so happy when they're onscreen. They both have a natural charm, intelligence, and gravitas that makes them flesh-and-blood people instead of Stock Russian Bad Guys (although this show obviously doesn't…

I could see that, particularly with the recap airing that quote from EST about listening to gut instincts. A lot of people are mentioning being a little foggy on where we left off last season, but I definitely remember the final scene where Philip seemed on the verge of a breakdown after killing Gene. And there's also…

I loved when they did a variation of that on American Dad when Stan is bit by a dog and says "Cheese and crackers FUCK that hurt!"

American Horror Story must not count because it's the best part of the show and you might as well turn off the TV after the title sequence is over. I think I keep watching just to see if an episode can live up to those fantastic openers.

They did this and it was called "Down From the Mountain." I saw it and it was absolutely amazing.

And Jess was a teenager when he came on the scene. Logan was a college student who I believe was a year ahead of Rory. So a lot of Jess' issues are mitigated duly by his broken family issues and his young age. The reasons for Jess' bad behavior were completely justified and his later maturation was totally believable…

To quote Bullock from American Dad - "Did you guys ever think of this: Sylvester Stallone's name is Sylvester."

If I'm judging strictly by the music and not the acting or storyline or anything, the quiet guitar version is my favorite song in the film. Followed by Amado Mio, which no one ever mentions.

Well, "Rope," "Rebecca," "Shadow of a Doubt," and "Suspicion" have some deeply twisted protagonists, so themaleshoegaze isn't entirely mistaken. The Innocent Man Wrongly Accused just flips it and focuses more on how the world itself is deeply twisted. Saboteurs and spies and schemers work to corrupt the good man. One…

I would really enjoy a feature on classic films that takes movies that are famous for particular scenes/quotes/images (such as the "Gilda" hair flip) and explains why they're brilliant besides. I remember watching "Psycho" for the first time and being floored by how good the entire movie was, top to bottom, when I…

I always felt like someone miswrote that lyric. CLEARLY it's supposed to be

I thought it was brilliant because it took the need for explanations to an absurd exaggeration. The Coens just throw it in your face that you can't make reason out of chaos, you can't neatly clean up life as an A-to-B story when it's inherently messy and senseless. Turning a gruesome massacre into a storybook was…