The Americans
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You risk your life to get information.
Youtakea life to get information.
You give your body to get information.
And sometimes you get nothing out of it.
The bill is about to arrive.
Elizabeth is currently on two important missions related to the upcoming arms summit.
Lets check in on them, shall we?
(It only just occurs to me now that Dead Hand is essentially the doomsday machine referenced inDr.
Strangelove, which brought me tothisNew Yorkerpieceby Eric Schlosser, Almost Everything inDr.
She still doesnt have the sensor.
It turns out the Russian just wanted to extend his sympathy to Glenn, nothing more.
What she has gotten, however, are uncomfortable insights into what shes become.
All those hours, she says.
At least Sofia got some personal security out of the bargain.
In the end, it might be Oleg who has something to show for his efforts.
And the difference is that he consistently chooses his conscience over the dictates of the state.
One thing I learned here is [Americans] are not crazy, he tells Philip.
We can make peace with them.
With a wife and newborn back home, hes risking his life for his convictions.
He asks if she wants a beer.
She shakes her head.
Boom, opening credits.
Its like a custody battle in reverse, where the parents stay married but the kids are separated.
The schism in their marriage grew awfully deep in the three years we missed.
Paiges eyes scanning to her new hookups badge is a bad, bad sign.
She wants to just her mother so much that she wont listen to her explicit instructions.
you might have subplotsaboutthe uselessness of certain characters, but those same characters cannot be useless to you.
Last season was obsessed with Russias failures to feed its own people.
This was a stark reminder.
