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I was hoping to make it home for dinner, but things got very topsy-turvy at the office.
And the seeds were planted in Philips single-sentence warning to Elizabeth.
Philip and Elizabeths Now what?
Her parents stay on the train because theyve been on it their whole lives and never seriously considered disembarking.
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Topsy-turvy at the office, indeed.
You cant go home for dinner again.
The entire show is about that phrase, and the finale unpacks it with great precision.
The Americansis (I guess I have to say was now!)
START pulverizes any idea of a script for these role-players to play and forces them to work off-script.
(Philip did that deed, but thankfully Stan never found out.)
Everybodys gone off-script now, and the series goes off-script with them.
There are no disguises.
Im done with that now, he tells Stan.
I have been for a long time.
Elizabeth was always the true believer, Lady Macbeth to his Macbeth.
You might know what to do here.
Then the finale shifts from theater into silent cinema (with music).
6, by Tchaikovsky.
But the interaction of music and visuals is sublime, and very much in character.
What to make of any of this?
What was it all for?
Its so sad you have to laugh.
Feels strange, he says in English.
Well get used to it, she says in Russian.
