This FX series returns in 3 weeks, on March 16th! Will Nina somehow make her way back to America, and Stan? Does Paige end up bringing everyone down (nawwww, that would mean the end of the series). And what does the future hold for Mail Robot?
Does anyone else think the wait is interminable?
Can’t wait!!
Looking forward to it. Dovetails nicely with the end of Downtown Abbey.
Unfortunately, I don’t see how this could go past season season 4 without a huge change. Since Paige has essentially blown her parents cover, they are going to either have to run or go “home”. But what do I know?
Didn’t she blow it to the Pastor? H and I were wondering if he would just think that was ludicrous and then the parents would explain it away as her having a breakdown.
Good thought. Tell everyone she went nuts, pack her off to east germany, and call the cops and say she ran away.
H has always felt there was something off about the Pastor. Who knows what it is or isn’t, but nothing would surprise me. But even if he doesn’t like her parents, it would be hard to believe they were Russian spies and easier to buy that Paige just had a meltdown.
Since the Directorate has wanted to bring Paige into the fold, my guess is that Pastor Tim perhaps works for them. Either that, or he is not long for this world.
We an’t wait for the new season.
Good point, MidwestDad3, It wouldn’t surprise me if they offed Pastor Tim at all.
Yes, maybe Elizabeth and Philip will brazen it out, try to get everyone to believe that Paige is delusional and paranoid.
But remember that scene where Philip went to the church one night and threatened to beat up Pastor Tim?
Recently re-watched the terrific opening episode from 2 seasons ago. Leanne sits on the hood of a car drinking a beer with Elizabeth and saying how proud she is that her son Jared has just been accepted at Carnegie Mellon for next fall, in Engineering. That turned out to be a pretty significant clue to the season-long story arch. They even repeated that line a couple of weeks later during the “previously on” segment at the beginning of an episode.
Why CMU of all colleges? In the early 1980s the US Dept of Defense established the Software Engineering Institute there. The implication is that Jared might somehow become a mole.
I wonder if Paige will begin her college search this year. I was always impressed by the early “Sopranos” episode in which Tony took Meadow on a college trip to see Bates.
I was somewhat disappointed by the series opener last week. Having watched from the first episode three years ago, it always seemed to me that the parents’ continued efforts to hide their “line of work” from the children, and Philip’s close friendship with Stan, were two of the most compelling aspects of the show. I wasn’t thrilled to see the change of direction on both accounts.
Nevertheless, last night’s episode was superb IMO. Paige’s and Philip’s separate confessions to Elizabeth (she must feel like a therapist), Stan’s philosophical musings on mac 'n cheese, and the humorous & deadly juxtaposition of Henry’s cologne with a vial of lethal pathogens brought back the right mix of tension and comic relief. I just hope Pastor Tim is sleeping with one eye open. And “Tainted Love” is definitely coming off my playlist.
I’ve loved this show since it began and I can’t understand why it’s not a major winner at the awards shows every year.
The way the parallel stories in the US and the ones in the USSR with Nina and the kidnapped Jewish dissident are proceeding have been quite different from what I expected. It looks like Nina will not be coming back to the US any time soon which really surprised me but the way her character is developing is really interesting. Poor Phillip just can’t catch a break; I wonder if EST is actually helping him or accelerating his deterioration
I am really enjoying all the creative camera shots designed to hide Kerri Russel’s pregnant tummy.
I think Pastor Tim will be framed as a pedophile and made to look as though he killed himself in disgrace.
@Madison85, it sure looked like episode 3 was headed down this road when Philip asked Paige to go to Pastor Tim and maintain her relationship with him. That father/daughter talk was just one step away from entering supremely creepy territory IMO.
@Joblue Yep, those repeatedly close-in shots of Keri Russell, Keri in a bulky coat, etc are starting to become stale. More creativity needed! Why didn’t they just work the pregnancy into the script?
I’m hoping episode 4 starts tying some loose ends together. This season seems to me to lack some focus at this point, and is taking too many easy shots: Frank Langella gets the biological sample, Frank gets sick. Duh. Elizabeth goes to her “friend’s” home, and the father’s weakness (alcoholism) is immediately apparent. It all seems too rushed, too predictable, maybe because there are so many tangents at this point.
Is it just me, or does this season seem to be meandering along with no real focus? Things seem to be moving so slowly with no really good plot twists.
I don’t think it’s just you. This season feels much different than the first 3. Now that Paige knows, Elizabeth and Philip don’t need to be as secretive. And Nina tied a lot of people together–the whole dynamic has shifted on both sides.
I’m no longer watching it on Wednesday nights. I’m recording it and watching it whenever I can work it in. I guess that is an indication of my own flagging interest.
Speaking of flagging, there was more sex in the earlier seasons.
Let’s hope for an uptick on Wednesday night. It really can’t move any more slowly than it has been. And get rid of that plague-carrying rat ASAP!!!