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If Tim dies and his wife dies the Lawyer sends his info to the FBI. Tim is hands off.

Every parent lies to their kids; they sometimes lie in order to protect them and that's not their only motive but surely it is a part of their motive. I don't quite buy that Paige has been harmed that much more than any kid who grows up to find the parents kept secrets. Some family secrets are pretty bad. But kids

Indeed if Paige did become a spy she would get a position in government herself, not do what her parents have been doing. It would be a waste of her as an asset if they did that. More than deep cover spies they need real Americans, lol.

But I believe they themselves are going to break with the KGB, I think the wedding was very much a break, though maybe they have not quite realized it themselves:

I haven't seen them. Next season is when it will matter I expect.

Here is Juan Lazaro Jr the son of Russian deep cover spies who were deported but he and a half brother chose to remain in the US. At the time he was 17 and destitute but he trained as a concert Pianist. This is four years after that, 2014.

Well I think the Sopranos DID a karmic ending. Tony was certainly shot to death. However LeCarre does have a way ending things that isn't happy but bittersweet. Maybe. Somebody dies for sure. Stan is off being an agent for sure, dead or alive. Henry is part of the family for sure. I would hope Oleg survives.

Agreed it will not be a happy ending, but between "this is their karma for all that lying and deception and killing" and "this is how their love survives and how their children prosper from it" I think the show is more likely to end up in the latter category. I actually see one or both dying in a grand gesture to

Diplomats are not subject to the jurisdiction of the US nor are occupying troops as both, legally speaking, bring their own national sovereignty with them.

And it allows her ultimately to separate from Tim and reattach to her parents as the focus of her life for now. Tim is not good for my family she said.

Is the problem that they are spies but didn't tell her or that they are spies and did tell her. Is Henry helped by not telling him; or injured by telling? Or vice versa?
The real issue is that Paige is taking Tim's evaluation as if it were so but parents lie to their kids all the time and kids recover and compensate

I see her distress and yes she is asking for help. But this is where I think the Jennings
become separate from the KGB. First I think she is taking Tim's word for it that she's damaged and I do not think so. Her parents lied to her as all do at some point. That doesn't mean she cannot trust people. Paige will survive

And just last week people were saying nothing happens in The Americans this year. MASSIVE things happened this week. Was anyone killed? Oh. Not really.

Yes and I think this is prefiguring the path of the storyline. This episode divides the Jennings *family* from the KGB.

I actually thought that was kind of strange because there's no real reason they cannot wear them. However it was quite symbolic of the sharp dividing lines in their lives.

IT will not happen. Henry will fight for his family when the time comes. He has shown that.

Remember this ceremony was a surprise to Nadezhda, so how could he bring Paige? Plus he'd blow Father victor's cover. And it is nonsense to suggest she was born without a soul in any sense of the word. Illegitimacy is a failing outdated concept. I was happy to have both of my grandchildren at their parent's wedding.

Pastor Tim is gone but not dead. He is not, Paige said, good for her family. And the lesson of this episode is that your family is what matters. When you are in a dark room you instinctively know how to move forward and that's what this family is doing. It may not be "right" and it may not work but it is what they

I am stubborn, I believe Henry has yet a role to play. This episode is all about family committing to itself.

"Behold these Thy Servants Mikhail and Nadezhda guiding them to every good work… This cloth signifies purity of intentions and the road the new married have to follow together."