"To do this kind of work without a partner is to fail—she’s already seen it happen to William."

No, haven't seen Grimm. But as someone who speaks German, I'm usually the go-to person when I'm watching TV or a movie with friends and a character supposedly says something in German. Everybody looks at me for a translation and probably half the time I just throw up my hands—whatever was said was either not actually…

German translation of that is "ich verarsch dich nicht" … literally "I ass* you not" … so the translation difficulty goes both ways.

IMO his pronunciation was pretty good for someone who clearly just started learning German. I've heard far worse.

It is bad, but it's much better than it could have been.

If they're KGB and they want to sell KGB secrets to the FBI it seems like they would have said that already by now.

He seems disappointed about the state of things but MILES away from suicide, at least to me.

A ton of money to be made? How?

Maybe. I think the FBI would be on the lookout for just a man and a woman. Seeing them with a kid seems like it would throw off an observer.

Paige acts upset and delicate all the time but her basic character is pretty fickle. She switched to being super religious pretty quick, and is switching back pretty quick now. She's been vocally unhappy about the parents-being-Russian-spies reveal but has ultimately rolled with it as well as one could expect. Based…

I wish I could upvote this 100 times for the Better Call Saul reference.

They might not care too much but just asking him will strengthen their relationship. If Pastor Tim thinks of the Jenningses as being close friends who trust him and look up to him and look to him for advice, he's going to be less likely to blab. They're just working an asset and if he manages to barf up some useful…

Meh, am I the only person who felt like Tuan's plan was pretty reasonable? Teens attempting suicide as a cry for help is a thing. A quick google search says that 1 in 15 teenagers have attempted suicide. Emphasis on attempted. People seem to have a pretty hard time killing themselves even when they really think they…

Agree. Elizabeth handles these conversations about returning to Russia very matter-of-factly. Philip seems more pensive. You know he's thinking "hey I kinda like it here." Reminds me of his monologue in season 1 episode 1 about how the electricity always works and the food is pretty good.

That was also my immediate reaction although I decided within a second or two that the bag wasn't NEARLY heavy enough to act as a counterweight.

Thanks for the (I assume) informed opinion. I have wondered for years how good the actors' Russian is. I notice in some IMDB bios that Russian might be their second language so I wasn't sure. Also I wasn't sure if there were mismatches in accent that wouldn't seem natural to a native speaker.

To be honest, I meant "karate fight" kind of tongue-in-cheek. One thing I've appreciated about The Americans is the apparent realism of the fight scenes. In season 1, episode 2, Philip nearly lost the fight against the much larger man despite his training, and he came home pretty black-and-blue and beat up. Elizabeth…

Like I said, it has literally been my favorite TV show for years exactly because it's "Mission: Impossible with feels" as you put it.

Cool, thanks for the rec, hadn't heard of it.

Okay. Well, now that I know this is an actual thing that happened, I feel a little better about the episode. Without knowing this backstory, it sure seemed like the writers thought "oh s**t we forgot to put any spy stuff in the last 5 episodes of our show that's about spies, let's make up something for this one…