re: The Americans final season - Official Season 6 Thread (spoliers)

I don't remember every detail from past seasons but based on Arkady conversation with Oleg that Arkady had met Phillip, and only once.

Also, Phillip and Oleg's conversation about loving DC at this time of the year/loving it when the cherry blossoms bloom was code to confirm who they were meeting.

So, to answer your question: No, I don't think Oleg/Stan/Phillip know about their relationships with one another.

Pretty rapey, actually. That guy was bad news, like Ted Bundy bad news.

It was definitely for a date, but Elizabeth didn't want to risk it. I also think part of of her just wanted to frick up an American soldier who messed with her daughter's psyche.

I didn't read any previews about the season so I had no clue that they jumped 2-3 years in the timeline before watching this episode. I assume it was 1984 or so last year.

I loved the ways they introduced the time change, from Arkady saying he had talked to a man who had left Directorate S several years ago to Philip driving up to Henry's boarding school hockey game. I wonder what happened to convince them to send Henry to that boarding school.

I love the way they positioned all of the Russians in two camps, either as pro Western reform, Gorbachev supporters like Philip, Oleg, and Arkady or as hard line anti-West communists. It will be interesting to see if Elizabeth goes against her natural ideology.

Also Oleg always struck me as the kind of guy who would truly flourish in early 90s Russia. He even looks like Mikhail Prokorhov

There was nothing vague about it at all. It was a total Ted Bundy routine. The guy had no authority to be asking Paige anything.

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I thought it was the people from his office.

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The camera sure lingered a lot on the brunette who had to drag her lame arse husband to the floor to dance. Just sayin' ...

Obviously, I had no idea where the show was going, although I did know they were skipping ahead to 1987. And it also was obvious there would be a major conflict between Philip and Elizabeth that would drive the show's resolution.

That said ...

It is an incredible plot device to literally have them working against each other - perhaps even without Elizabeth knowing -- and each for different Russian factions. That is downright fan-fricking-tastic.

1. Great first episode
2. I just realized I’ll be traveling and will miss the last two episodes.

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I'm not saying naval guy was going to kill Paige and have sex with her corpse, but he was a creep through and through, and I can't believe there's any doubt about what he was doing. He wouldn't have tapped on an old man's car window, that's for damn sure.

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I seem to remember from one of the season previews, Stan is show at a crime scene with a dead person lying face down. That would be an easy way to get him onto Elizabeth's trail, even though he's no longer in FBI counterintelligence. Plus, remember Elizabeth used the same method to dispatch the last guy coming after Paige and she likely did it with some others. Stan is going to be after a "serial" killer.

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Stan is going to be after a "serial" killer.

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And surely Dennis remembers that tiny woman who kicked his and his partner's arse a while back. I need to go back and watch that dinner party to see if Elizabeth looked at him funny.

Do Russians really say the first and last name so often?