Well... Coulsen dating her is the only way we can be sure she’ll die.

Stan Lee Man, Stan Lee Man

“I want to put my mouth on hers and move it around a lot. But only if she does too, because that’s what makes it fun.”

One of my favorite moments was Piper’s expression when Daisy went into the operation room and said, “Hey, something weird has happened” right after Deke’s rambling post surgery. Also when Mack said to Piper, “I wouldn’t.”

Maybe that was the evil that The Doctor personality was up to this week.

AOS bumped for Trump’s speech. Hydra wins again.

• That was a very shippy episode Philinda finally saying it. FitzSimmons with we don’t leave each other sides any more. Deke finally said it out loud too (and made some people very uncomfortable). We even got Ruby/Alex (it kind of reminds me of Kara/Ward) and Mack had time to talk about his feelings about Elena…

The Americans: Henry Report 0603:

Yes, quite a departure from The Americans’ usual pollyannaish world view.

To me, that conversation illustrated how phony Philip and Elizabeth have been in interacting with their kids—just flipping on the “normal” switch at the drop of a hat and pretending that their dark lives don’t exist (and were, in fact, much more central to their identities). If I were Paige, that call would make me…

It’s because it’s two stars live together in Brooklyn.

Well, that’s the whole point. They’re effectively forcing them to defect this way. They even called it “extraction” in the previous scene

Similar: early 1990's and my company was hosting some brand new Russian customers. The office/manufacturing plant were located in the neighborhood around Chicago’s Midway Airport - Chicago’s blue collar bungalow belt. I picked up the small group at their hotel in downtown Chicago, and drove them to the SW side,…

She’s so blonde - I’ve been thinking that maybe she’s Stasi. East Germany’s Communist regime fell in 1989, so it’s still 2 years off.

Smoking Sofia Kovalenko is the best.

She’s actually able to pull off the trope of the movie “ugly” girl, who just needs to get rid of her glasses and let her hair down to be beautiful. Except they usually just look like a gorgeous woman having a relaxing day at home, then the same gorgeous woman dressed up later. But The Americans is somehow able to make…

She is a spy for sure, maybe not KGB, but maybe CIA counter intelligence.

Yep. And Claudia is definitely playing up her ‘motherly’ side, even though she and Elizabeth don’t have that kind of relationship. Elizabeth missed out on sharing experiences with Paige and her own mother, and the “Russian Immersion” classes are filling that gap.

See, I think the manipulation is, or has become, focused on Elizabeth, as well as Paige. Claudia must realize that she is pressuring Elizabeth to perform a number of risky missions, with little or no appropriate preparation.

The way Claudia’s cultural propaganda worked on Elizabeth, even when pointedly aimed at Paige, is such a depressing character note.