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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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More to come once they're available!

Re: Philip's loneliness

Date: 2014-03-25 11:11 pm (UTC)
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Yes. And that he's being forced into that role when he could've very well viewed her in the same way and didn't. He was just as alone and feeling the strangeness (or at least, had every right to) and that she so sharply rejected him and cut off what would be really his only source of feeling closeness from someone who knew what he was all about had to be isolating on a level it's hard to imagine, particularly to go home every day and have to feel like that all the time.

Yeah, it's funny and painful how it works. Because Elizabeth finds the relationship/situation so painful, and then she in turn makes it just as painful for him when it wouldn't have been. Because for her the worst part is that it's forced on her, where for him the worst part is that it's not. That is, for her she just can't open up to this guy that she's been ordered to be so intimate with. For him the painful part is that she's choosing to reject him personally because he's just unlikable (something he says out loud twice--once when he says she's always wished he was someone else/was disappointed with him and earlier when he says maybe she just doesn't find him attractive). He could make do with the forced cohabitation and she would have made do just as easily if he didn't want her. (In the short run she would have been relieved, probably.) Unfortunately it worked out exactly the opposite way.

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