Unfortunately, just the sex worker part makes the likelihood of a bad end probable. I don’t know if you watched The Deuce, but that’s definitely the biggest example of that that comes to mind.

There is no way they could do this show and make it an accurate portrayal of 80's queer New York without someone being murdered.

I’m still hoping for a Dorian Corey character...and a subplot about that infamous skeleton in her closet.

This has not been a great week to be a relatively sane fan of Star Wars and Drag Race with all this online Romper Room fuckery.

Real talk; but it seems way more noticeably exploitative than in earlier seasons.

Mo’ money, mo’ ego, mo’ problems...

Ru has played amateur therapist to the queens since the first season

Wow. Wow. I’m still processing that finale. For an episode that had very little action the first half made me feel like a very large man was standing on my chest. All I have at the moment are random thoughts:

Reviewing Elizabeth’s shocked, horrified, mournful facial expressions in the finale w/r/t leaving her children + that DREAM - I’m struck by how often The Americans engaged with the engaged with the theme of difficult mothers — mothers who do not know how or who refuse to be maternal — over the entire series.…

Paige standing on that platform while E and P watched helplessly was the most devastating moment for me. After the border patrol handed E’s passport and it seemed they were in the clear, I was suspecting (fearing) that as the train pulled away, we’d see Paige on the platform in police custody. But the idea that she…

For me this finale was up there with the Mad Men finale.

But isn’t the point of the show that no one is entirely horrible or entirely good? As Philip said, they had a job to do. This conflict between humanity and structures/ideologies is at the core of the whole series. And as others have pointed out, P and E have lost everything and face an uncertain future.

This reminds me of the finale of the Shield. And when Phillip said Stan is the only friend he ever had in shitty his life I lost it.

I liked how Stan is torn about his wife but cares to tuck her in. He is a human being.

I’m OK with those two not getting any real judicial punishment. I’d rather have their charcters follow the soldiers arc; them ruining their personal lives and having a mind jammed full of traumatic memories all in the name of their country than the criminal arc of ending up in jail, or states witness for greed. Jail…

Loved the moment with the family in McDonald’s that mirrored their own happy-family-eats-ice-cream scene from the pilot. Such a subtle callback.

To Erik’s point, it was never the spycraft stuff that enthralled me about this show - I’d have trouble remembering from week to week what Liz and Philip were up to. But the interpersonal drama kept me riveted for six years, no more so than tonight. When Stan confronted the Jennings in the garage, it strained credulity…

Stan has never broken my heart more than he did in this episode. Not only was the scene in the garage tense and gutwrenching, those moments with Renee later just broke my fucking heart.

Let’s talk about the sound design for a minute, specifically with the rain scene. They’ve already had U2 swelling in the background for a minute, as the feds raid the Jennings’ house, then the music goes silent as the Border Patrol agents board and check passports.

They’re still in prison, so to speak, particularly Philip as he never wanted to go back to Russia. They lost their children, they lost their home of more than two decades, and they’ll spend the rest of their lives looking over their shoulders for those they pissed off.

Of all the red herrings offered up by this show, perhaps the best was from FX itself, labeling with episode as “MA-LV”.