This is keeping up the trend towards less self-contained episodes. I thought last week felt more like a long set-up than the previous two first episodes -- they had central plots about Timoshev and the Connors and that one didn't really.
Philip really sounds panicked when dealing with what happened with Yousef.
Interesting to see where Paige is with her parents. She seemed to see them as united in whatever they were up to last season but now is thinking Philip might be the guilty one. Her observations are kind of getting more accurate -- P&E do look out for each other, P is actually with someone else when he's away at night, and there's some discontent between them since the end of last season that Paige's probably picking up on as well, esp. since Elizabeth's started going to church with her and Philip hasn't.
On the other hand it doesn't seem to worry her as much, I guess because the situation is more stable (no one suddenly moving out) and the conflict over church has stopped.
The body disposal is the most horrifying thing I've ever seen on TV. Especially for Philip and Yousaf who knew her when she was alive.
Surely diplomatic immunity wouldn't actually cover murdering a law enforcement official? Oleg must really be pretty upset to reach this point. Although it seems quite in character for him to come up with something like this but not be able to follow through.
I get the feeling that knowing she 'can't go back' and that's final is a way of coping for so many years for Elizabeth, like if she started to entertain the possibility that she could it would prey on her mind or bring up a lot of doubts or conflicted feelings. Plus when her memories are so important to her part of her might not want to have them affected by seeing everything again but different.
Interesting also that Paige is reading the newspaper this week when she was switching away from the tv news last week. She's interested in the story about college that might affect her but still doesn't see what happens in the USSR as relevant to her.
What do people think is up with Tatiana? Apparently she's getting Oleg to talk to sources in the press? Maybe this means Charles Duluth will be back soon.
The revelation about Elizabeth's mother has to make a big impact on Philip. It's going to make it really hard for him to convince her that keeping your kid out of the intelligence service is what a good/loving parent would do, because what would that say about Elizabeth's mother? He'll have to convince her that her mother didn't understand what she would be getting into.
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Philip really sounds panicked when dealing with what happened with Yousef.
Interesting to see where Paige is with her parents. She seemed to see them as united in whatever they were up to last season but now is thinking Philip might be the guilty one. Her observations are kind of getting more accurate -- P&E do look out for each other, P is actually with someone else when he's away at night, and there's some discontent between them since the end of last season that Paige's probably picking up on as well, esp. since Elizabeth's started going to church with her and Philip hasn't.
On the other hand it doesn't seem to worry her as much, I guess because the situation is more stable (no one suddenly moving out) and the conflict over church has stopped.
The body disposal is the most horrifying thing I've ever seen on TV. Especially for Philip and Yousaf who knew her when she was alive.
Surely diplomatic immunity wouldn't actually cover murdering a law enforcement official? Oleg must really be pretty upset to reach this point. Although it seems quite in character for him to come up with something like this but not be able to follow through.
I get the feeling that knowing she 'can't go back' and that's final is a way of coping for so many years for Elizabeth, like if she started to entertain the possibility that she could it would prey on her mind or bring up a lot of doubts or conflicted feelings. Plus when her memories are so important to her part of her might not want to have them affected by seeing everything again but different.
Interesting also that Paige is reading the newspaper this week when she was switching away from the tv news last week. She's interested in the story about college that might affect her but still doesn't see what happens in the USSR as relevant to her.
What do people think is up with Tatiana? Apparently she's getting Oleg to talk to sources in the press? Maybe this means Charles Duluth will be back soon.
The revelation about Elizabeth's mother has to make a big impact on Philip. It's going to make it really hard for him to convince her that keeping your kid out of the intelligence service is what a good/loving parent would do, because what would that say about Elizabeth's mother? He'll have to convince her that her mother didn't understand what she would be getting into.