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4 May 2016 in the U.S. and Canada

This is a discussion post for episode 408 of The Americans, intended for viewers who are watching the show on the U.S./Canadian schedule. (Feel free to dive in to the discussion even if you're coming in late--and you should also feel free to start a new thread if it seems too daunting to read through what's already been posted first. If you're reading this at a point where you've already seen subsequent episodes, though, please take care to keep comments spoiler-free of anything that comes after season four, episode eight.)

Original promo trailer



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Date: 2016-05-07 02:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sugangel7.livejournal.com
I love that Martha leaving isn't the finale. I mean, I am super sad about it because I really adore Martha, but I think having it all be about Martha's journey to leaving would have been too much a rehash of Nina. This was different. Martha got dignity, and the world's most awkwardly tragic goodbye in her own way, not a rehash of Nina. Both Martha and Philip trying to give the other the comfort they could was really well done.

Agree 100%. Martha got dignity without having to die, and it would've been way too much of a reshash of Nina's storyline if we follow her all the way back to the Soviet Union.

I agree that I want to know more about how Paige's relationship with the church may have changed. It was always unclear to me how much of her belief in God was legitimate belief and how much was just her wanting to be rebellious and finding a place for her political / social activism. (as Elizabeth once commented "she has the right worldviews, she's just looking in the wrong place")

Paige and the church

Date: 2016-05-07 07:01 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sistermagpie
It was interesting too, that the fight was over Bible study where she had to fake a mood (be into it when she wasn't) but also, it seemed, a bit EST-like. When she said "You have to talk/be into it" I assumed it was a place where you'd talk about your feelings and how the Bible related to your life. She was now in a space where she didn't want to be doing that in the group, didn't want to be sharing her feelings that way, in that performative manner.

In a way what Elizabeth told her was a good lesson for adulthood. You don't choose choose to be open or retreat as your two options. You learn to hide your inner life when you want.

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