Episode discussion post: "Harvest"

[jae]

Aired:
9 May 2018 in the U.S. and Canada

This is a discussion post for episode 607 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 six, episode seven.)

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USSR - Paige crazy

[quantumreality]

That's actually a good point.

Most people in the USSR in the 1980s at least probably privately did admit to themselves that the wheels were beginning to fall off the Soviet system. Paige rolls on in with shining eyes, saying it's TEH BEST!!!111oneone and most people would give her that not-smile that you give a corner church evangelist bellowing about the end times.

It's going to be painful when she gets busted and then a few years later, moldering away in some jail cell, she finds out the Soviet Union just dried up and blew away.

Re: USSR - Paige crazy

[sistermagpie]

Someone elsewhere really summed up that moment in the scene really well, imo. They said something about how the moment she has to talk about her big cause she manages 2 cliche sentences before falling back on an appeal to authority with "What you and Claudia always say."

The parts of the scene that stand out as meaningful is how she has no friends and how she tells herself that one day, if she does this, she'll meet her Philip. Something Elizabeth has no reason to believe will happen. Yet she doesn't say that.

Honestly, I don't even know if Paige would be that affected by the USSR falling if she was in jail by then without her Mom. I would bet that by then she'd have found something else if her mom was gone, at least.