Fan community for FX's The Americans

Yes! (I'm rewatching now and will wind up posting a looooong comment paying particular attention to that whole thread I'm sure.) To me it seemed like a complication of the Pilot idea rather than a continuation. Because back then, interestingly, he put it in terms of just being who they've pretended to be. Which was a practical solution and in some ways very do-able but in some ways frankly not. Because Philip Jennings, as much as he's becoming a full human being, is not the complete human being and he's not who this guy is, in total. There are no doubt times when he's fine being just Philip, but at other times those other parts will be important. And I think that was part of what Yossi pointed out to him, was that that other person didn't go away, and as long as he was hidden he actually wasn't totally himself. Even if he realizes this is his home now, he can't just leave that behind completely.

And what I love about it is that this isn't where he wants to escape some shameful past but he has to reconcile it. It's more that there are parts of that life and his home that he genuinely loves and loved them. Elizabeth has that living connection with her mother, but we don't know the forms it takes with Philip. But I'm really glad that there's somebody who seems to be representing just love of the place because foreign countries really are different!