I had a similar experience when I saw #stamfordbridge: I wondered why Harold Godwinson's last victory was provoking so much interest before finding out it's the home stadium for Chelsea Football Club.

Signs point to "very".

Then and now, yes. The numbers would be harder to get (though I'm sure there are attempts based on birth records). But I'd be surprised if that had a monotonic trend either.

That strikes me as unlikely only because Paige's views being personally satisfying to Elizabeth, and only professionally inconvenient, is less dramatically fraught than the reverse. (They're already playing chicken with the FBI, so aligning Paige with that simplifies the story instead of complicating it.)

The Americans seems to be going with the conceit (shared with Shakespeare and Superman) that disguises are basically impenetrable unless actually removed or compromised.

"But it stole a lot of intellectual property and used it for their own purposes, just like we do!"

I don't know. I had a friend who was big into his youth group when I was in high school, and the worst they ever did was tell him to stop playing D&D. Which was bad enough from our perspective, since up till then he was our DM. (In retrospect, bringing a book with this cover to church may have been a mistake on his…

If she learned enough, fast enough, she could help the FBI set up a sting before he realized what was going on. (Especially since bringing him down would help a lot with plea bargaining the charges against her.) But that's a huge longshot— he's a professionally suspicious spy, and there's no reason to think she's a…

Of course others helped supply fax machines, copiers, and computers to Solidarity in Poland. (I'd love to see Paige bring her sincere, teenage "did you realize?" concerns about life behind the Iron Curtain to the dinner table.)

It's true he was part of Directorate S, so he has a vested interest.

Once you've come to the conclusion that someone has bluffed their way into a classified military manufacturing facility during the Cold War and is willing to kill you to stop you from giving them away, I don't think you need much of an ongoing red scare for "Soviet agent" to top of the list of possibilities. That's…

I'll pay the rent!

There are: http://pixar.wikia.com/Kevin

It is a great and powerful wig.

The last comment of yours I saw in this subthread was: "It's more of a 'yes this man murdered his wife just because but he's a useful asset coddle him.'" If the moderated comment was after that, I can't see it yet.

Would we really be okay with Mischa and Nadezhda casually blowing away witnesses, or poisoning teenagers to extort their parents into planting a bug in the Defense Minister's house?

Re mistresses: is Stan worse to Nina than Philip is to Martha?

Makes sense. I may be wrong, but I think audiences are more likely to tolerate outright direct murder of innocents if the protagonists are officially part of a bad-guy organization (most frequently the Mafia, though the KGB works too) than if they're supposed to be the good guys.

Though only if she can get them to believe her. "Martha, Soviet agent" is a much simpler story than "Martha, victim of an incredibly baroque seduction-and-marriage to fake internal investigator/Soviet sleeper agent".

Well, he kind of is. Even if he's only overseeing surveillance and not wet work (which seems unlikely at his level, even if he doesn't directly supervise the Directorate S types), it's sort of like being a mob accountant, or the navigator on a slave ship. Personal integrity only goes so far.