I wish they would stop making the Pensive Oleg Scenes on high locations like rooftops and bridges. It makes me WAY too nervous.

Wow. That was reddit in a nutshell. No wonder they're so obsessed with it.

I'm kind of hoping it comes back in the form of the scientist guy Philip & Elizabeth killed out in Kansas. Like, a small news blurb somehow reaches her about the found body of a researcher who went missing the same time her parents started their grain mission.

The worst gutpunch of all that tension, for me, was when Natalie said her husband doesn't know, he thinks she's good. Because at that point I was just assuming she was lying about being a Nazi collaborator to protect her husband. I thought the episode was heading towards not having a clear answer to who she really was…

So how many reasons does Philip have now to be disillusioned?

I'm a big fan of his books, but most of them make me feel an existential nausea, whereas this one was definitely a literal nausea.

I'm at the point where it's not funny enough for its usual comedy and it's not compelling enough for a noir. And it's brought back characters I never cared much for either way in the first place like Len Trexler and Trinette and Cheryl's brother. (I don't mind Barry, particularly since the story from last season with…

It reminds me of the questions Paige had when she first found out, like are Paige and Henry even Elizabeth and Philip's biological children? She found out that she doesn't even know her parents' real names. Basic, life foundation stuff. Then the scene with her and Elizabeth in the car where Elizabeth reminisces about…

I really liked Alexei's bit about how life in Russia wasn't that bad so long as he had his mother. He wasn't missing life in Russia per se, but a family memory.

I'm like 99% sure it was a poster for Tron

I was waiting for her to ask about Clark/Philip/Misha in some way, so when she didn't take Gabriel's bait and started in on how she understood everything now, it broke my heart. Jesus, woman, take one of Volodya's friends and screw your brains out, you deserve it.

I actually was expecting him to throw in something like "you're never around anyway and when you're home you only talk to Paige…"

Oleg is really starting to rival Philip in the "getting real tired of this shit" expressions

I'm always afraid to admit this out loud, but I don't care much for The Simpsons. Individual moments here and there make me chuckle or smile, but it's never left me in stitches. That being said, I freaking love Sideshow Bob. Kelsey Grammar's performance as the character is one of the all-time greatest voice…

Philip wrestles with his doubts and pain and has for the entire show since we met him. Elizabeth suppresses it. In real life, I could see someone like Philip just spiraling into himself and hating himself until he slips up and lets himself get injured/killed in a mission. Meanwhile someone like Elizabeth would snap…

I think it could go towards breaking Elizabeth. Pasha is a Russian kid who was forced to defect to the US by his father so Elizabeth can't paint him as a traitor. Elizabeth cares about "things that matter" and forces herself not to care about the "little stuff" that has to be sacrificed along the way in the name of…

Between the Ehrmantraut thing and the Americans style 1980s Cold War opener, it's like FX said "fuck it, Noah Hawley can do no wrong, we're doing an FX cinematic universe!"

If this were any other show I would definitely say "flyover state mentality," but I really hope (and expect) The Americans to be smarter than that. Saying U of I sounded so harsh on my ears, but it seems like something that would be extremely easy for a non-native English speaker or non-American to mess up.

I agree. I love noir and thought the premiere was surprisingly great, but I was generally bored by this episode. I figured last week did enough premise-building. And while I like Cheryl, I think an entire episode of her is a bit much. I don't mind a reboot, but I miss having all the characters together bouncing off…

I was thinking the same thing! The music swells, he gives meaningful looks to his parents…my heart was pounding thinking he was about to jump off that roof.