Episode discussion post: "Cardinal"
Mar. 5th, 2014 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jae posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
theamericansAired:
5 March 2014 in the U.S. and Canada
9 March 2014 in Israel
22 March 2014 in the UK
This is a discussion post for episode 202 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 if you're reading this later and have already seen subsequent episodes, but please take care to keep comments spoiler-free of anything that comes after season two, episode two.)
Original promo trailers
Episode recaps
From Vulture
From Hitfix
From The AV Club
From The Huffington Post
From IGN
From Think Progress
From SpoilerTV
From Zap2it
From Television Without Pity
From TV Ate My Wardrobe
From Filmthrasher
From showratings.tv
From Newsmanone
From Screenrant
From the LA Times
From Geekbinge
From tvrage.com
From Unreality TV (UK)
5 March 2014 in the U.S. and Canada
9 March 2014 in Israel
22 March 2014 in the UK
This is a discussion post for episode 202 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 if you're reading this later and have already seen subsequent episodes, but please take care to keep comments spoiler-free of anything that comes after season two, episode two.)
Original promo trailers
Episode recaps
From Vulture
From Hitfix
From The AV Club
From The Huffington Post
From IGN
From Think Progress
From SpoilerTV
From Zap2it
From Television Without Pity
From TV Ate My Wardrobe
From Filmthrasher
From showratings.tv
From Newsmanone
From Screenrant
From the LA Times
From Geekbinge
From tvrage.com
From Unreality TV (UK)
Re: be his girlfriend - Elizabeth and Gregory
Date: 2014-03-09 06:37 pm (UTC)I imagine that the excuse-reason, i.e. the way she justified it to herself, was that Gregory rose pretty high up the hierarchy pretty fast because it was clear from the beginning that he was a big "get" for the KGB (by the time we knew him he wasn't just an underling, but actually in charge of his own crew running things without direct control from Philip and Elizabeth, so they trusted him with a lot more than agents normally get trusted with). But I think the main actual reason was that Elizabeth wanted to be able to be as much herself with him as she could without actually breaking any rules. If you think about the timing of when they would have met, that would have been so, so important to her at that point.
-J