The Sopranos had the advantage that the stuff Tony watched was generally familiar (at at least a cultural level) to the viewer, with these Russian movies the way they relate to the characters becomes more cryptic, and less specific. But I thought that this week’s choice was great as a way for Philip to be confronted…

I first saw Miriam Shor years ago playing Yihtzak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch and thought she was incredible. But at the time, she was really a nobody as far as the business is concerned.

Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys - hell, even the actors who play Oleg and Stan - are so often at their best when they don’t say a single line. It’s one of my favorite aspects and this show!

I will say as someone who watched my father slowly die after a stroke that left him brain dead, that I would have suffocated him myself if possible. He basically breathed through starvation and kidney failure after lying in a bed for over a week. We almost had to r/s the funeral because it took so long. While he was…

That’s what she said

The way Elizabeth kept checking the mirrors in the car, I just knew that she was going to pull a gun and blow Jackson away.  I was so surprised and relieved when she let him go.

Not just the paintings, all the Russian movies they’re watching this season are lovely character notes as well. Philip watching ‘The Garage’ in the dark on his own was such a sad, desperate moment. Both longing to connect with his past, and wanting some way to know is his sacrifices were worth it, wanting to find some…

It seemed creepier, grosser and a little sloppier than her past seductions. Which makes sense I guess.

If you haven’t read the article about the artist whose work that is, it is worthwhile. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/23/arts/television/the-americans-fx-final-season.html

Is the kid going to talk?

Explains why replicants get an expiration date.

There are at least two near me (in Northern Virginia). The double R-bar burger has not changed.

I think she’s now compromised, not in an operational sense, but in an emotional way that will eventually compromise her in an operational sense.

Yeah, a young kid like him didn’t have a chance, haha.

Agree 100% about the death. I watched pretty much unblinkingly every act of violence throughout the whole series — even the suitcase scene! — but this was almost unbearable. (Second place for me goes to the dental work scene.) The stuff before Elizabeth killed her was pretty hard, too, especially for anyone who has…

On one of the expressways I often had to take, i think maybe to Atlantic City, the only rest stop restaurant was Roy Rogers. I always thought they had a weird deal to get a monopoly on the rest stop restaurant. But I came to appreciate the surprisingly wide variety of items they had.

For the record: I grew up in DC — would be about Henry’s age now. Roy Rogers was definitely a thing.

That guy who played Jackson was pretty amazing. From being the poser douche at Rififi, to the visibly out of his depth dude in his meetings with Elizabeth, it was like he was growing younger each time we saw him. That, and his Georgia accent increasing in direct proportion to his alarm in that final scene.

Miriam Shor did some fine work on this show.

Worse than the axe scene, though the vomiting scene is the one moment so far this season where I had to look away.