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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Re: Paige's conversion

[sistermagpie]

In a way they're doing that more with Philip in his doing things like asking Stan why things always have to grow and him having a sandwich in his office while remembering being starving. Or having to fire people because they're low-producing.

He's not explicitly linking that to socialism but we know he is a socialist and I feel like he is seeing flaws in capitalism and the benefits of his home country there.

Elizabeth and Claudia's lessons are just so weird to me. Sometimes they seem on the level of a grade school lesson on cultures of the world. Like where if your family was from Russia you come in wearing a babushka and bring borscht.

The only real-sounding discussion about the country Elizabeth's really had was with Philip when they argued over Glasnost.

Elizabeth did tell Paige that "everybody's in it together" back in S5, but of course that's ignoring plenty of reality about the country.