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Aired:
12 March 2014 in the U.S. and Canada
16 March 2014 in Israel
29 March 2014 in the UK

This is a discussion post for episode 203 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 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 two, episode three.)

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Episode recaps

From the Washington Post
From Vulture
From Hitfix
From the AV Club
From the Huffington Post
From IGN
From Collider
From Television Without Pity
From Sound on Sight
From tv.com
From TV Ate My Wardrobe
From the Houston Chronicle
From spoilertv.com
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From The Cloture Club

More to come once they're available!

Re: What about Paige's life is 'really wierd'?

Date: 2014-03-14 12:49 pm (UTC)
soupytwist: Dude says NO to heterosexuality. (mmm... vice)
From: [personal profile] soupytwist
There is more than that though! Paige and Henry get left, often at no notice and in weird ways/places. They get left alone in the middle of the night. (This is one I think Paige is specifically aware of as maybe being Weird - that's why she was checking the bedroom door, seeing if they were in the house.) They have some really bizarrely strict house rules. They've had at least one time where Elizabeth is clearly really worried/panicked, but doesn't explain why and instead is all "we're going to a movie! ...oh wait, I need to leave you at a movie!" The Jennings don't just lack a family, but they lack any friends at all on top of that. (Unless you count the Beemans, and they're new.)

Any single one of those could easily have any number of explanations. It's the combo of all of them that equals Something Is Up. :)

And I really hope Philip didn't denounce his dad (but it's definitely possible). I don't think Paige is going to get as far as denouncing, though. At least not until the very end of the show, and that would be such a sad way to end!

Re: What about Paige's life is 'really wierd'?

Date: 2014-03-15 02:28 am (UTC)
quantumreality: (Default)
From: [personal profile] quantumreality
Hmm, assuming Philip is 40ish in 1981/2, then he lost his father circa 1946 or 1947 - which is kind of in the right time frame for some paranoid idiot at the MVD to decide his father talked too much to British or American soldiers and whipped him off to the Gulag.

(Yes, this happened IRL - the sheer absurd insanity of Stalin's notions that any Soviet soldier who talked to an American or a Frenchman or a Brit, or was even in a German POW camp, was possibly unreliable and needed to be thrown into a labor camp back home. If I could do one thing that would preserve the state of affairs post-WW2 and yet ease a lot of people's suffering? I'd make Stalin have a heart attack or something in late May, 1945. His successors would almost certainly have refused to continue such an asinine policy.)

Philip's family

Date: 2014-03-15 10:24 am (UTC)
soupytwist: stephen fry peering round a wall (Default)
From: [personal profile] soupytwist
Yeah, I was thinking that it wouldn't take much at all - little Philip mentioning the wrong thing to the wrong person without even knowing what he was doing would be completely possible.

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