Just saw the episode and haven't read the other comments yet..
I loved this episode! With everything going on, it still managed to be funny and tense at the same time. Funny mostly around Stan and tense around Elizabeth. Stan as the marriage counselor (of all people), and then discussing whether Sandra would stay with him if a life was at stake (not sure). Stan enjoying life after Counter Intelligence, Stan hearing that Oleg's in town.
But also Elizabeth adamantly denying that the KGB uses sex to get information and Elizabeth getting a drawing lesson.
Offering to kill off Erica - at first I thought Elizabeth was going to use that to blackmail Glenn. Though I guess she just wants to control the timing. Poor Erica.
Elizabeth infiltrating the State Department (skipping out on yet another art lesson) and preparing for this to be her last mission got me twitchy. When she said "see you tonight" to Paige, I was wondering if those were going to be her last words.
The travel agency - was this a generational thing, moving towards budget travel? Poor Philip and his "we'll always be there for you". In another decade he'll shutter up his travel agency and move to the net. Though I think nowadays his "selling an experience" would certainly work.
The previous episode was a kind of closure for the pilot episode - there was the parent threatening somebody over Paige (with all the differences people mentioned here last time), but there was also Stan hosting a meal, whereas in the pilot the Jennings showed up to welcome the Beemans. There was also going back to Elizabeth not talking to Philip, which isn't exactly closure. They barely talked this time too.
This time it was a throwback to the season 1 finale. Back then they were afraid that the Colonel was a trap. This time it was actually a trap. Did the Colonel shoot the gun? I was looking at the last few minutes through my fingers.
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Date: 2018-04-08 09:57 pm (UTC)I loved this episode! With everything going on, it still managed to be funny and tense at the same time. Funny mostly around Stan and tense around Elizabeth. Stan as the marriage counselor (of all people), and then discussing whether Sandra would stay with him if a life was at stake (not sure). Stan enjoying life after Counter Intelligence, Stan hearing that Oleg's in town.
But also Elizabeth adamantly denying that the KGB uses sex to get information and Elizabeth getting a drawing lesson.
Offering to kill off Erica - at first I thought Elizabeth was going to use that to blackmail Glenn. Though I guess she just wants to control the timing. Poor Erica.
Elizabeth infiltrating the State Department (skipping out on yet another art lesson) and preparing for this to be her last mission got me twitchy. When she said "see you tonight" to Paige, I was wondering if those were going to be her last words.
The travel agency - was this a generational thing, moving towards budget travel? Poor Philip and his "we'll always be there for you". In another decade he'll shutter up his travel agency and move to the net. Though I think nowadays his "selling an experience" would certainly work.
The previous episode was a kind of closure for the pilot episode - there was the parent threatening somebody over Paige (with all the differences people mentioned here last time), but there was also Stan hosting a meal, whereas in the pilot the Jennings showed up to welcome the Beemans. There was also going back to Elizabeth not talking to Philip, which isn't exactly closure. They barely talked this time too.
This time it was a throwback to the season 1 finale. Back then they were afraid that the Colonel was a trap. This time it was actually a trap. Did the Colonel shoot the gun? I was looking at the last few minutes through my fingers.