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Look Sir Droids posted:Does Elizabeth know who Gaad is? Cause he got a pretty good look at her face before she knocked his rear end out. Also, drat girl, take your wig off when you suspect the Feds are patrolling you. Go hide in a bush or something. Yeah, I figured she was gonna at least duck down some side streets, try to be a little less visible instead of walking straight down some major avenue. I can't think of any plausible way they could bring back Nina unless she's gonna have her own subplot in Russia.
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howe_sam posted:Oh sweet jesus, folding up the corpse That scene was like how I'd imagine a game of Jeffery Dahmer Rules Twister would play. The Russian prison food still might have been grosser though.
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Feb 5, 2015 07:18
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Viginti posted:The show is pretty obtuse with its plots to begin with, but having that whole storyline take place through talking on a quiet crackling radio in the middle of suspense scenes made it pretty hard to follow what was happening, so don't feel bad. I'm sure it will be a bigger deal next week when they decide just what to do with this info. I felt like this during the Martha scene tonight. She's a great character and has had some of the funniest scenes on the show but she's such a high-maintenance and high-risk sideline operation for Phil that should have been ended a long time ago that it feels weird whenever a scene with the two of them together pops up every few episodes. Also, it sometimes feels like they over-rely on shoehorning in unnecessary tension/danger where the couple have to survive or escape a situation by the skin of their teeth. Like the whole car thing from the latest just took me out of the episode and made me question why a guy who's supposed to be this vital and protected is allowing anyone off the street to just wander around his home doing whatever they want?
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Feb 13, 2015 02:37
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mobby_6kl posted:I couldn't hear and/or understand half of the poo poo from the radio so you're probably right. However, didn't their handler already ID the bald CIA guy as being clean? How does knowing where he live helps them then? It just seems that if the head guy was so important, they could've gone after him directly, knowing he's CIA and having his license plate, at the very least. Maybe the importance is knowing that the teen babysitter is the CIA Afghan honcho's daughter and they'll try working her "gently caress you Dad" instincts with the help of Paige.
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Feb 14, 2015 01:25
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That was an awesome episode. Between Stan's bathroom bullying and Phil's new Serbian Film mission this season's getting real good now.
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Feb 19, 2015 14:26
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Oh man they really are going all Serbian Film.
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Feb 26, 2015 15:33
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Accretionist posted:
Imagine if he did get caught with the dad walking in: "Dude, I swear to God I'm just a Russian spy, not a pedophile"
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Feb 26, 2015 15:51
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pentyne posted:There's was probably a worry that the NBC show/ripoff Allegiance would pull viewers away from The Americans so they decided to amp up the shock value for this season. For me it just makes sense for the show to get darker as Phil & Liz's pressures, murder-count, betrayals, etc keep piling up season by season. It also plays to this show's strengths and makes for some of the best spy drama when the dark poo poo gets heavy and adds an extra layer of unease to an already paranoia filled genre.
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Feb 27, 2015 00:31
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pentyne posted:When they come to a head over turning their daughter, I can see Liz taking it to the point of killing Phil "for the cause". They've played down that dynamic a bit and let it simmer, but she definitely seems like she'd take that step. I could see the show eventually going in this direction. Even besides the whole Paige situation, there's the Kim subplot with all it's parallells and highlighting of just how far apart their tolerances and outlooks are.
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Feb 27, 2015 01:15
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In Soviet Russia sexual orientation gently caress you
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Mar 1, 2015 00:56
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The worst thing that's happened in a Paige storyline was when they didn't follow up on her budding feud with the young Lita Ford wannabe
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Mar 11, 2015 03:02
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GimpChimp posted:How about "she's really good and the basic premise of an emotionally volatile FBI secretary married to a KGB agent's bookish alter ego for intelligence gathering purposes is hugely entertaining" Yeah, it's gotta take skill to play a character gullible enough to be in that situation in the first place and have it feel genuine. It's to her credit that I've been dreading finally seeing her figuring things out.
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Mar 19, 2015 18:07
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beanieson posted:Love conquers all. Martha is on board with the espionage at this point and as long as she stays on board she's more valuable than ever. I'm not sure that it's love motivating Martha to act the way she is right now, calculated self-preservation could also easily explain her whole "I just wanna drop it & don't care who you really are" followed by eager volunteering of FBI info Clark hadn't even thought to ask for yet.
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Mar 27, 2015 00:41
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Rhys is such a great actor. You could really feel Phil's righteous anger at Gabriel/the Center without him even have to raise his voice during that Scrabble scene. Also, if Stan & Oleg's hotel plan for defector lady is any indication, it's no wonder they couldn't save Nina. The only positive thing it achieved was that it led to them having a beer together.
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Mar 27, 2015 14:58
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maniacripper posted:First of all Philip wasn't sharpening his knife , he was steeling it. I can't wait to see when Henry watches the "Bitch" word-of-the-week episode of Mr Robinson's Neighborhood. BIG HEADLINE posted:What worries me is exactly the fact that Paige is 15. She might have let ~Jesus into her heart~, but there's one thing she possesses now that all 15 year old girls would quite literally kill for, 'godly' or not... I thought they hinted that this is pretty much the direction Paige is going in. The soap opera she was watching when Phil & Liz got home even had some type of scene playing where one character was telling the other something like "I have the control now" and threatening him with his misdeeds.
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Apr 3, 2015 16:14
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JohnSherman posted:I don't think that soap opera scene was meant to be taken that literally. Paige blackmailing her parents would basically be an express train to insufferability, and I think the writers are smarter than that. I never said it was, it's more of an indication of where her mind's at and how her relationship with her parents will be going forward, not that she's going to literally blackmail them. It'll be more of a "gently caress off, I'm doing what I want and there's not much ya'll can do about it" (cuz Paige now holds the power in their parent/child relationship)
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Apr 3, 2015 18:12
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Change thread title to "Strategic Wig Striptease"
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Apr 16, 2015 05:46
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Guildencrantz posted:So, uh, what was Philip trying to accomplish by revealing his ~true form~ to Martha? Other than digging an even deeper hole for himself. I can only guess at this point but I'd say that he does have some real feelings for Martha and doesn't want her hurt more or killed, so by revealing his true face to her he's hoping to signal this and buy time/prevent her from fleeing to her parents & basically admitting that she's the guilty party to the FBI.
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Apr 16, 2015 16:55
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withak posted:What are the chances that Stan's conversation with the black FBI guy got picked up by the communist mail robot? You could hear it beeping in the background. I thought that Oleg's big reveal was going to be dissension in the ranks based on that. I thought that guy was gonna be putting more heat on Stan earlier this season, with how he first acted with Gaad right after the pen mic was discovered and how bad Stan looked after he set up that horrible hotel plan with Oleg & the defector, but this is the first they've really had anything happen on screen about it. Stan could still be extra hosed if dude's been suspecting Martha and saw Stan visiting her. I can't really figure out how the mail robot would tie into all that though.
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Apr 17, 2015 01:31
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This was the best season so far imo. The best thing about this show is the characters, their interactions, and it's tense atmosphere. Like someone said before itt, a whole hell of a lot has happened with the characters and how they relate to eachother, and the show's gotten as dark and tense as it's ever been. Last season did the whole season long mystery/arc wrapped up in the finale thing and it didn't play to the show's strengths imo, I'll gladly take the super slow burn with major plots bleeding into the next season over that.
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Apr 23, 2015 21:21
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pigdog posted:Kinda hate snitchin' Pavlik Morozov Paige. He's already let Phil slide on the psycho stalking visit, so it wouldn't be out of character if the writers have him not wanting to turn them in for whatever reason.
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Apr 27, 2015 22:48
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Junkenstein posted:Tell that to Homeland. Yeah, Homeland cut out Dana mid-storyline and it was awesome. She had to be the most annoying character on cable TV I've endured and I've had to watch those terrible Disney/Nickelodeon sitcoms with my kid.
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Cugel the Clever posted:As someone who wasn't born until years after the last session, I'd never heard of the drat thing and all I get from the show is the same tired motivational speaker bullshit that is still somehow an industry. The Wikipedia article reads like marketing schtick for it, and seeing now that it turned into that loving Landmark cult, I imagine that's exactly what it is. I never heard of it and I was alive back then. Maybe it was a regional thing?
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