It’s also implausible that they would risk inexperienced Paige on these missions when she is in line for bigger things. Why even think if risking her now? She doesn’t need to learn this petty stuff.

It wasn’t a fatal sin, but it was certainly something not to be repeated. In itself it’s not particularly out of place, but if something else happened, and the FBI investigated and someone mentioned “Yes, that’s the girl who kicked those guys’ asses”, she’d be in more trouble that she would if she didn’t kick such…

Full treason? Not really. If anything, the KGB is the rogue treasonous operative at this point.

Two things.

First, they want Paige to have a clean history. If anybody should ever look into her past and people witness her looking like she stepped out of a Van Damme movie (which is a little more impressive than “she learned from a self-defense VHS tape”), that stuff might stand out. So they want her to be a ghost.

Se…

Agreed. And it made me recognize (not for the first time) that this series belongs among the best ever. Was Breaking Bad better? I think The Americans is in that league.

Ugh, that look on his face when he was in bed with Kimmy was awful.

As soon as this ended, I immediately thought that this was one of the best episodes the show has ever done. Holy shit, it was dark. I said last weak that I felt a vague sense of dread and unease the whole episode. This week that was made more acute as a non-stop back and forth between intense anxiety and horror. I…

Spys wanna be invisible. Road Housing two guys in a bar is pretty visible.

Long term. Currently she is part of Liz’s surveillance squad. I mean, her mom straight up knifed a dude in the neck who had her ID. They are, shall we say, being protective of her and her anonymity.

It’s not calling attention to yourself. As a spy you want to be invisible, a chameleon. Going Chuck Norris on two dudes gets you remembered.

Elizabeth is basically the monster in a horror movie at this point. A female terminator. It’s almost MORE horrifying that she’s still human enough to not kill the kid. The sickest part: you can see on her face that she is thinking about whether she “has” to do it or not. Calculated.

On a more serious note:

Superficial aside: I laughed out loud when Paige beat that guy up.He got what he was asking for. Paige’s fight training comes in handy. Your average teenage girl would not have faired so well.

The best episode of the series since the Season 2 finale. Bra-fucking-vo.

“Oi!” can be found in many countries, including Canada. Connecticut is not far so maybe she worked there previously?

I really doubt that Liz’s family was able to cook batches of “zharkoye” when she was growing up. Potatoes they had. But beef?

Agreed, super wasteful too, considering Elizabeth and Philip both experienced starvation as children, they’ve come a long way in being able to toss it like that. Last season had us staring with Elizabeth at her pretty stereotypical American shoe collection.

Kasia was played by Polish actress so her Polish was perfect (the difference between her and the translator was so obvious to my Polish ears). But most people weren’t bad. Translator actress couldn’t deal with many Polish sounds but both Eve’s husband and Dom sounded passable as people who lived in a foreign country…

The “point” isn’t some Aesop’s Fable lesson about character. The show doesn’t have a “point” in that sense — it never did, nor does it need to (as Zack Handlen never understood). It’s a long-form fantasy/horror epic, which, like nearly all post-apocalyptic fiction, is working as a meditation on human society and…

While the show doesn’t really need to go on another tangent, I did want to know at least a LITTLE more about the older siblings. Did they ever talk to Andrew? Did they keep in touch with the mom? Where were they when the FBI stuff happened? I mean at one point I get why they didn’t get *any* real focus, but it just…