I don't like or dislike characters. I just want them to make sense, with regard to who they are supposed to be in the environment they are in and have been in. Stan doesn't. He's supposed to be a hard case who spent years undercover in the Aryan Brotherhood. People like that are master manipulators, with everyone in…

Well, if you are referring to whom I suspect you are, the entire Stan/Nina intersection has been horribly written from nearly the very beginning, but then the entire Stan character is horribly written. I like a lot of things about the show, but this character has just been poorly executed, and when it is a character…

Good grief the hand to hand combat scens are just terrible. If I have to see that worst of all action movie tropes again, the 110 pound woman knocking the stuffing out of a physically fit man who out weighs her by 80 pounds, I may be tempted to quit the show again. The portrayal of psychological cost of living one's…

Eh, the Russians are pretty well written, but with the exception of Martha and Gaad, I've found most of the American characters to be pretty poorly drawn. For a character who gets a ton of screen time (thankfully less so in season 4) Stan especially has been not wrtten well, it seems to me. Sometimes I've thought it…

I almost dropped the show with the season 1 finale, when, as has been far too typical, Phillip and Elizabeth's antagonists, the FBI, were written as being too stupid to execute a simple stakeout. It felt like a bad police drama from the '70s. Since then, there have been other scenes where I've wanted to shout…

Season 4 was massively better than 2 or 3, and I think it might be due to the writers having fewer scenes with characters (mostly the FBI and CIA personnel) that they unfortunately wrote as being pretty dimwitted. That was the problem with the show being more Ludlum than LeCarre; the former kind of spy drama really…