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TheCenturion posted:Also, mad props on Momma Oleg dropping some truth bombs on how to survive. I really wasn't expecting them to bother giving her any depth. Up to this point she'd just been an annoying plot device who makes things happen by crying. Her little reveal instantly gives context to her emotional frailty with regard to her son's death and her remaining son's safety.
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Both parents just being mindfucked that Henry is good at math. 
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Apr 5, 2017 03:11
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Oh holy gently caress the likelihood that someone Turned Henry is getting more and more likely every episode 
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There's no way Henry is still in middle school
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I will not buy this record, it is scratched.
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"Oleg, I have brought you these three lovely ladies in the hopes that you will pick one of them and maybe forget about Nina." e- Oh poo poo, the lab tech died for nothing. 
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CBJSprague24 posted:e- Oh poo poo, the lab tech died for nothing. If we're done with Mischa that was a little anti-climactic for the character, but not the impact it'll have on Gabriel I'm guessing.
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I don't think we're done with Mischa. He didn't fly all the way to the US just to meet an old man who's telling him to shut up and go home. I don't think he's going to go home quiet and willingly, and Gabriel can't exactly kill him+fold him up into a suitcase and send him home that way. I mean, he could, but it might cause some blowback.
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anatoliy pltkrvkay posted:I don't think we're done with Mischa. He didn't fly all the way to the US just to meet an old man who's telling him to shut up and go home. I don't think he's going to go home quiet and willingly, and Gabriel can't exactly kill him+fold him up into a suitcase and send him home that way. Due to the Violence warning for this episode, I kept expecting Mischa to possibly stab Gabriel on the park bench, which would lead to his arrest and exposure.
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CBJSprague24 posted:Both parents just being mindfucked that Henry is good at math. And the show somehow plausibly setting it up (if even by accident) between him playing stratomatic with Stan and his interest in computers and games. This show is just too good. And have we ever gotten the exact age/grade difference between Paige and Henry? Because ya it feels as if he should be a freshman by now. Paige is probably 17 right? Between driving lessons past season and Matthew being a bit older and about to head off to college. Maybe Paige repeated junior year.
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Olegs dinner was pretty amazing. How awkward.Zero One posted:I will not buy this record, it is scratched. Poor Mischa. Came all this way to be turned away by some random old man. Time to be recruited then I guess.
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drat, what a good episode and directed by Stan. I can't believe we're already almost halfway through the season. And welp, guess you guys were right about the wheat/pest thing. Good call. After-sex "Do you want to hear about Lotus 1-2-3?" was the best. Didn't realize it was also the title of the episode. Parent-teacher conference was amazing, and as Sepinwall put it: "And with this one subplot, the show has cleverly turned its own marginalization of Henry into a feature, not a bug." Lol Romancing The Stone. The Oleg Dating Game was great and those were three very coincidentally attractive Russian ladies. At this point I feel like Paige might kill herself. Didn't realize Phillip had still been going to EST this whole time. Too bad we didn't get rear end in a top hat-from-the-bar-in-Good Will Hunting though. Phillip's grey beard get-up was one of the craziest ones yet. When they first showed him from the side in the car I had no idea who it was until they showed his face and even then he wasn't very recognizable. Apparently Matthew Rhys calls this one the "Sigmund Freud". God drat was that Mischa and Gabriel scene sad. Just sad, sad, sad. Between guy-in-the-lab and what might happen (and has already happened that Phillip doesn't know about) with Mischa, I think Phillip's gonna break. And I'm starting to think the Center might finally put a kill order on Phillip in the future. Pontius Pilate posted:And have we ever gotten the exact age/grade difference between Paige and Henry? Because ya it feels as if he should be a freshman by now. Paige is probably 17 right? Between driving lessons past season and Matthew being a bit older and about to head off to college. Maybe Paige repeated junior year. If Matthew was in Algebra 1 and now Algebra 2, then I'd say it's most likely he's a Freshman in High School. vvv Well that answers that I guess. Must be 8th grade. Longbaugh01 fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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Longbaugh01 posted:If Matthew was in Algebra 1 and now Algebra 2, then I'd say it's most likely he's a Freshman in High School. The building they walk out of says "Falls Church Middle School."
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TheCenturion posted:
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She didn't look too shattered, though. "That's okay, honey...from now on *I'll* wear the killin' pants." BIG HEADLINE fucked around with this message at 23:44 on Apr 5, 2017 |
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CBJSprague24 posted:Both parents just being mindfucked that Henry is good at math. By far the best part of the episode. Need to improvise during spy stuff? No problem. Henry is good at math? OH poo poo KEEP YOUR COOL
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He's smart, comfortable being sneaky, etc. God drat, they picked the wrong kid. Hell, they could've pawned Paige off on the church entirely.
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This just confirmed that Henry is KGB. He's poo poo at math, he just found some kompromat on the teach. And all the time hanging out with "Chris" and at the mall are just covers for killing and torturing folks.
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This episode was just one gut-punch after another. I love how on-point the writing is for Paige. Everything she does and says really feels and sounds like teenage poo poo. Like real teenage turmoil. When she spent all day in bed after her parents' first reveal; when they found her sleeping in the closet; just now when she said maybe she's just meant to be alone. Phillip's reaction to the news about the crops was genuinely uncomfortable to watch. Rhys' acting and Emmerich's direction were on point. Also Elizabeth trying to empathize with his anguish and falling short. And the scene with Mischa and Gabriel. "Not here." gently caress
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Yeah that was devastating. Philip was all the way back in thinking he was protecting the Soviet Union from a biological attack, and now he finds out it was all bullshit, he killed some innocent lab dope, and once again has been doing awful poo poo for no good purpose. He's gonna be such a mess.
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I've been seeing ads for Patriot, which is on Amazon Prime Video. Anyone watching it? Would a fan of The Americans like Patriot?
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Accretionist posted:I've been seeing ads for Patriot, which is on Amazon Prime Video. Anyone watching it? Would a fan of The Americans like Patriot? It's not like The Americans, but I've heard people here and elsewhere say it's great and their favorite show of the year thus far. I know it's definitely on my list to watch.
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Started the pilot. It's great. Very different, though. Edit: It's like if The Americans were a decent comedy. Accretionist fucked around with this message at 03:53 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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Accretionist posted:Started the pilot. It's great. Very different, though. You'll never look at a suitcase the same way again.
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BIG HEADLINE posted:You'll never look at a suitcase the same way again. Not like followers of The Americans did in the first place.
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Doctor Butts posted:Not like followers of The Americans did in the first place. Or followers of Mad Men. "That's what the money is for!"
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Longbaugh01 posted:Or followers of Mad Men. Best episode. Or bowling bags and The Sopranos. The Americans suitcase scene reminded me very much of that.
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Accretionist posted:Started the pilot. It's great. Very different, though. When you finish the season of Patriot, that "decent" will change to "transcendent".
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That was one of the best episodes they've done. Please give Matthew Rhys an Emmy. He loving goddamn deserves it. I've been rewatching the scene where Elizabeth tells him the truth, and it is still amazing. edit: Also, his scene with Paige.
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Antifa Sarkeesian posted:Good call Nah, I got it backward. Elizabeth didn't seem to care all that much. "We'll be more careful. Still, we shouldn't be DROPPIN' BAHDIES anyway; bad tradecraft." Kudos to the art and direction team; from having the guts in this day and age to just have a long, still shot of two people staring at one another to the vintage McDonalds containers. I've said it before, I'll say it again: this show is my childhood. I couldn't help but notice the TV in this one shot when E comes home. Period accurate, but any one of the monitors hooked up to my computer is bigger. Crappy picture chat: Let this be a lesson: resize, *then* add text.
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That is a bedroom/extra TV not a family TV. I'm old so I remember those days and everyone would have had 27" Sears Floor Console sets by 1985 and nobody was putting tv's above fireplaces yet. 
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Keyser S0ze posted:That is a bedroom/extra TV not a family TV. I'm old so I remember those days and everyone would have had 27" Sears Floor Console sets by 1985 and nobody was putting tv's above fireplaces yet. Nah, I remember having quite the tiny one in the living room. I used to love going to visit Grandma because she had one of the larger floor models. Complete with an antenna on a rotor. Three whole channels. Luxury! Ah, the 80s. Saturday morning cartoons. Star Trek reruns on CKVR. Getting our very first Betamax player. Not knowing if you were supposed to hit 'stop' before 'rewind.' Atari 2600 and Coleco Vision. I adored my 64, my Commodore 64. I could write with it, paint with it, telecommunicate with it, my Commodore 64. Also, I didn't want to grow up, I was a Toys-R-Us kid. '85 would have been when the NES hit America, as I recall. If we don't see Henry playing Duck Hunt at some point, it'll be a tragedy. Also, Lazer Tag, in 1986. The original Worlds of Wonder Lazer Tag. Which also had a Saturday Morning Cartoon. Tom Clancy novels which talk about the super secret NavStar guidance system which nuke subs used to triangulate their positions so as to accurately launch nukes. Now we use it to play Pokemons. Microprose simulations.
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Yeah this show is also very much part of my childhood. I even grew up right outside of D.C. as well but in Maryland. (Yes I know they don't actually film there.) The T.V. when I was a kid had like 12 push buttons for channels and, volume, and on/off, and I think a dial for UHF channels or something. Plus the built-in bunny ear antenna of course. Another show that is also very much part of my childhood: Halt And Catch Fire. There's scenes in that having to do with the original NES that slayed me with nostalgia. TheCenturion posted:DROPPIN' BAHDIES Someone watches Arrow.
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TheCenturion posted:the vintage McDonalds containers. That was probably a fun day for the props department.
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I think it is amazing that they were able to find late 70's early 80's American cars that were in such good condition. Understandable they couldn't get hood ornaments for all the Oldsmobiles. Except for that Camaro, which looks a little beat up. Doctor Butts fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Apr 6, 2017 |
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