But this scare turned out to be a huge blessing for Phillip and Elizabeth. They held fast to "we would NEVER do such a thing", and were proven right, and now both Paige and Alice feel like shit for doubting them.

A description and first name may well twig Stan's suspicions.

Wow.

That was ridiculous. Alice was screaming her damn head off. Any teenage boy in that situation would've been eavesdropping. Plus, they had established seconds before he could hear them after he and Elizabeth exchanged shouted lines of dialogue.

She knows what he actually looks like, as well as his real American name and real real name.

Any chance that Phillip told The Centre that Gaad was going to Thailand after that raquetball game? And that Stan might remember telling Phillip that?

Callousness?
I think you mean "pants-shitting fear and a devastating sense of betrayal that her parents are evil Russian spies".
And it's Phillip and Elizabeth who have repeatedly put the family's future in uncertainty.

What do you think would be the threat, there? If Alice wants to squeal, she can do so at any time.

Name one time Jon Stewart has criticized people for having write offs.
And please explain how calling for higher taxes is in any way hypocritical.

But surely there are still some people in charge who have some degree of integrity? AV Club still writes some very incisive articles to this day. They can't just be exclusively all about the clicks like some kind of Answers.com bullshit, can they?

Yep.

Also…Daria and Shaggy as drawn are not going to make any child insecure.

I just can't anymore. Et tu, AV Club? Must this absurd millennial earnestness infect literally everything that is good in the world?

Don might be so remorseful, he'll confess immediately.

Her suspicions about what? That Eddie is lying to her? Fine, sure. But what is he lying about? She doesn't know. Maybe she should ask the person right in front of her who just told her Eddie was lying.

"He's lying to you".
The very next question should be "what is he lying about, and how do you know"?

Not a book reader, but I'm curious to see how book readers feel about getting their story in this piecemeal form. I would find it absolutely unacceptable and infuriating.

I don't think so.
Paige is not going to ever want to believe that her parents are murderes, and it would very easy at this point to make the argument "why would they wait seven months? If they were killers, they'd have done it a long time ago. I guess it was just a car accident".
And the child…ahem…would not be…

Well, it was live and there was a live audience there, so I doubt it was just TV effects with an audience agreeing to pretend it wasn't there.

I think after seven months, Pastor Tim and his wife could have that "accident", and Paige would be far less suspicious and probably a little relieved.