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28 January 2015 in the U.S. and Canada

This is a discussion post for episode 301 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 you should also 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 three, episode one.)

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Episode recaps (including some early-season generalities)

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From Screenrant
From We Got This Covered

Re: Scott the Swede

Date: 2015-01-29 08:52 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] theplatonicnonyeah
I honestly never got the hang of what Scott was supposed to be. "A Swedish intelligent agent"? Whatever the h*ll would we be wanting with one of those? It's not as if we ever were a nation with aspirations of world domination.

Sweden has always been this neutral zone that both the US and the former USSR had interests in, but mostly to keep as a buffer between each other.

Sidetrack: one of our most famous spies for the USSR, Stig Bergling, died the other day. He was convicted in 1979, escaped prison in 1987 and fled to the USSR with his then wife, only to return a few years later.

Re: Scott the Swede

Date: 2015-01-29 09:21 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] sistermagpie
Here's my fanwank. Maybe Philip met her as Scott Peterson in some other capacity--say, he was working somebody else and met her at a party of something--and then realized what a good asset she would make because of her husband and her personality, so then adjusted "Scott's" backstory to give him some ties to Sweden. Because she herself is supposed to have some ties to the country, but I don't think she's supposed to actually be from there. That in itself was a common thing, I think, to pretend to be from a country the person felt positively about.

Because it's just so weird and blatant that they haven't tried in the least to actually pass off this character as Swedish.

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