Yes, she could be a young KGB agent. But there are a lot of commenters here who insist that she is a spy — that she is a triple-agent by the end of this season — but I think it's made pretty clear when Stan has to coach her on how to get information out of people that she isn't more than an office-girl at this point.…

The cliffhanger is just that Paige is suspicious, not that she knows anything.

He wasn't just a bureaucrat any more than Arkady is. He was a really good spy. He took a big risk for the guy he was handling. He was just lonely and he missed Russia, which Nina was clever enough to fasten on as her line of assault.

No, it was weird. It was definitely meant to sound like a hard-and-fast rule. I mean, Paige had to run it by Henry first and they made sure to show us how scared she looked walking down the hallway. I thought we were supposed to think the whole separation thing had shaken her up and made her both less secure…

They both worked for people who spy but neither was a spy. Martha fell in love and then became a spy. Nina became a spy and then, maybe, fell in love a bit.

She only asked him straight out because she pretty much knew.

Also Stan telling her he wanted to stop it. She said "Family is everything." She has no family. Her loyalty to Stan cooled off then.

That wasn't bullshit fake surprise. Neither of these people was playing the other one; the show isn't that clever.

Maybe that would work if her set-up didn't involve sending to the gulag/executing her boss. As it is, that's not going to fly.

It is scary how often this con is pulled by people who aren't spies.

I doubt any church minister would marry a couple in such a short space of time, especially not knowing at least one of them at all. Just booking a church usually takes longer than one week. But that's probably just an oversight on the show's part.

KGB doesn't necessarily mean spy. She was in the KGB but she was a secretary. Stan wouldn't have had to coach her in how to spy if she already was one.

Because Stan says he can't figure out who killed Vlad. She knows that's bullshit and she knows Amador was Stan's partner.

A kind of depressing, but very intelligent, thing this show has done is present the "fake" marriage between Elizabeth and Philip as the one real relationship. All the passionate romantic relationships are either spy scams or escapist illusions. What Elizabeth and Philip have may not feel real to them, but that is, in…

It makes less sense if one thinks she was playing Stan all this time. A lot of people here thought that and I think it might have been more interesting and certainly more realistic if she had been but I never thought she was, or that Stan was playing her. Their feelings for each other were as real as two people in…

That thread ran away on the highway.

No, it's the opposite. She has said a few times that she has always been attracted to "bad" boys before (Amador for example) and she thinks that she is being mature and responsible by "allowing herself" to be attracted to a schmuck like Clarke. Philip is playing her excellently.

And yet Elizabeth and Philip are superheroes at every aspect of trade craft. It just doesn't add up, I'm afraid.

This aspect of the show is the most inexcusably unrealistic. There is no way a couple with two normal jobs, let alone spy jobs, could keep that house so clean and run their lives in such an orderly fashion without a cleaner and a daily sitter at the least.

It was a "double" sneer. He was joking with a fellow Russian about how they sneer at capitalist things. I think they figured subtitles would make the sarcasm confusing so they changed it to make it seem that he was sneering at the "technology" of the microwave. But it didn't work because he was obviously referring to…