Honestly, the thing that surprised me the most overall was just how sophisticated a show it turned out to be, storytelling-wise. Toward the beginning of the season, I remember thinking that it was going to be a sort of spy procedural with a story-of-the-week, cast against the backdrop of an overarching story about a marriage (sort of like the Good Wife transported to the 80s and moved to the world of espionage). I would have actually liked that show just fine, to be honest--the premise appeals to me that much--but the show it ended up being is so much better than that, and sometimes I want to give the showrunners big fat smooches for that. *g*

But in terms of plot points, the thing that surprised me the most--the thing that I remember making me jump out of my seat and yell "oh my god" while sitting under a hairdryer at the hairdresser's--was when Nina confessed to Arkady that she'd become a double agent. The show surprised me again and again in smaller ways, but that--I so did not see that coming.

-J