But Philip had his butt shown in "Comrades." Though I'll admit, it was a little weird that she completely stripped down and he was completely clothed, though perhaps not if you think of how that completely fits in with their characters (Philip is very secretive and holds back, Elizabeth blunt and honest.)

Great review although I disagree on two points.

Seriously. That scene was awesome, though.

Does he necessarily find out? I guess it's certainly possible. Maybe I got too happy for poor Brad too fast…

He got out alive and with his dignity intact. It could've been much worse.

I see episodes like this and can't understand why it was ignored at the emmys. Just brilliant.

Completely agree. Elizabeth's scene sold it for me right there. It was completely true and her finally coming into herself, in a way, admitting what she hadn't wanted to face before.

If it makes you feel better, I usually have to watch episodes several times before I completely understand what was going on. You're not alone :)

I know! It was such a great scene, and yet so funny at the same time. I was like, oh really? But then it completely worked too.

Two things I thought I'd never see on TV: someone taking a dump in front of us, and Matthew Rhys wiping his butt for him.

That was just such a great can of worms to get opened! I can't wait to see how it turns out for P/E next week :)

This show could not be more awesome if only for:

I completely missed the Polaris thing too, even on rewatch and wouldn't have noted it unless they'd pointed it out. So either I'm really stupid (sobs!) or it wasn't too obviously done.

Yeah, I think that's hurting the ability to sympathize with him and see him as real. Like even when Philip and Elizabeth cheated last season, we saw enough other sides of them that you could understand it and feel for them as broken, flawed people.

I agree. These people aren't allowed to speak a single word in Russian because they need to be THAT sure their cover is solid. Writing a tell all letter to your kid is a huge safety risk, even if we can all understand the emotional reasons behind it.

I feel like they could stretch each episode to an hour and a half instead of just the hour and still not have time to get all the story in. I want to see more of all the characters, but I can't think of one thing I would cut of what we saw last night to fit it in.

That's what I'm wondering too. They need some way to plausibly jump into that and it would be so fitting if Philip and Elizabeth's secrecy about the aunt was the thing that inadvertently got Paige hooked up with something they'll go bonkers over.

ROFL. That's awesome.

Could be. I'm not saying it's impossible that could be where they're going, just seems like the chances they have someone who can learn the language that awesomely, be this super-spy at 21 and they send them to babysit Paige?

Could a girl Paige's age have really been trained as an operative? Maybe she's really 21 but very young-looking? Or maybe it's unrelated?