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I recently finished watching The Deuce, an HBO series about prostitutes, pimps, pornography, police corruption and organized crime in Times Square the early 1970s. Seeing this (and I understand it's a TV show and not reality) gave me an idea of some of what Frank may have seen or heard early in his career on patrol and it's now frustrating me even more that they almost never have Frank tell stories from early in his career. I get that he wants to maintain/project a certain image to his children and grandchildren, but let him talk to Sid, Garrett, or Baker about it.

Based on the fact that's Paige, she has no idea what Gorbachev's background is or how long Claudia has been in the U.S. Paige might have thought they crossed paths before Claudia came to the U.S and before Gorbachev came to power. Or Paige really is that clueless and thinks a deep cover KGB agent went to the Kremlin for an event and met with Gorbachev. Either way it's a sort of valid question.

Yes! I would totally watch this show. It would be like Real Genuis meets Head of the Class. Super smart people having wacky adventures, dealing with college life, and building crazy inventions/designing apps.

I thought she meant knew him as in, crossed paths with him at an event, not weekly phone calls. She doesn't know where Claudia fits into the overall organization structure. I'm not sure. Would the State Department go to the FBI to run a background check? I thought the State Department had their own team/division that ran background checks. I was hoping at some point, either in Russia or in the U.S, there would be a scene of Oleg having a good time at a Jazz Club.

The mail robot already knows they're spies. He helped them when Soviet agents placed a bug in him.

I thought she had always smoked but that the number of cigarettes she smoked had dramatically increased sometime between the events of season 5 and season 6. Someone smoking in the early 1980s would not have seemed strange at all. I remember into the 90s restaurants having smoking and non-smoking sections.

Sorry, I know I'm probably overthinking this, but it still doesn't quite make sense. If he hadn't opened the box, would there have been a cover story/some excuse about how he didn't get into the program after all?

Having a spy in the personnel department could be incredibly useful. It would give a fantastic overview of the organization (structure, departments which would include what each department is reponsible for, who reports to whom, and so on). There is no way someone who has just been hired by personnel is going to be allowed to access one of the most top secret and guarded spaces in the building. The fan theory is that she will go into the vault and recognize the sketches. There is no way she is casually going inside the vault. North by Northwest would have been brilliant, but I think if that's what it was they would have made it more obvious.

I totally agree with this part. Also, what exactly is McIlraith? Does it exist? Is it a Soviet front group? If Jackson hadn't looked inside the box, what would have happened when he showed up to the first day of the management training program?

I thought the moment came when Elizabeth found out her instructions were not coming from party HQ but from a disgruntled faction within it. Once she knew that, she was not going along with Claudia's directions anymore. Elizabeth came around to Philip's point of view; they are loyal to the party, its leaders, and the premier. I think Stavos is where Paige was a few seasons ago. They know something is wrong/off, but neither one had any hard proof or evidence, just a bunch of little things that don't quite add up. Seeing how Elizabeth reacted to the change in plans during her nursing job got me thinking about Paige. They should have had Paige take an acting class. Many colleges have an art/arts requirement and something that would teach her how to do accents might be useful. Also, getting her involved with improv would be a useful skills for her future career. Does anyone know the movie that was playing when Phil was in the video store? I'm almost 100% sure Cary Grant was in it, but I could not near the dialogue clearly enough to look up a quote. Philip and Elizabeth on the same side will be close to unstopable. I could imagine some type of Bonnie and Clyde scenario-if they go down, they're going down fighting and together.

I agree. I was looking forward to seeing how Oleg reacted, especially since it seemed like he was the most worried about the potential for an accident with the biological/chemical weapons. During that storyline they made it clear that Oleg thought the Soviets were playing around with stuff that they did not have the ability to handle properly. It was one of the reasons he went to Stan. There's a massive, giant difference between growing up in a major metropolitan city (where you grew up) and growing up in a suburb/bedroom community (where Paige and Henry grew up). Tuan's school did not strike me as being especially diverse, nor did where Henry and Paige went to school.

That is one of my favorite scenes. I hope next season has more family dinners like that one where it's just fun without a ton of drama and serious discussions. Just once or twice per season have something that's pure silly fun.

Where I went to school, the only school activities that involved overnight travel were debate and possibly Academic Decathlon. Since we'd only been shown the boys being involved with sports, it didn't occur to me that overnight trips for school sports were a thing. I never saw anything strange with it. I figured any sleepovers/dinner with friends would have been on Friday or Saturday.

I thought he offered her the transfer before based on something heroic she had done and this was him making the same offer again. It sometimes takes me longer than I'd care to admit to put the peices together, but I just realized last night that Frank would have been on patrol (like Jamie is now) during the early 1970s. I have no idea what area he was assigned to, but I'm pretty sure he must have some amazing and wild stories and it kills me we don't get to hear them. We get "back in my day" type of stories from Henry all the time, but I'd love to hear Frank tell a story about the bad old days, especially if he was anywhere near Times Square. I went to a private school but it was independent (not religiously affiliated like where Jack and Sean are). I never remember any school functions on Sundays. Dances and school plays were always Fridays or Saturdays. I'm not sure what you mean by overnight sports trips but any away games (which were always on Satudays, never Sunday) were day trips. We'd be back home for dinner.

They could do a Lando movie after this one. Maybe this movie will somehow set up a Lando movie. I would totally be interested in a stand alone Lando movie, or a buddy movie about the adventures of Lando and Han (and Chewie).

Each episode usually has multiple storylines. They can continue this with Sheldon in college away from home. You have one storyline about Sheldon in college while he's away from home then another storyline about what's happening at home. That works for me. Maybe he does his first year of college locally in Texas and then transfers after that.

After she does that, I can see Jamie saying something like that "In car a few days ago you agreed with him." I think this next idea may be even better: we see Jamie and Eddie in the car on the way to dinner and he tells her not to defend him. He makes it clear that he can handle it and that she should say what she really thinks. When there's a disagreement, Eddie sides with Danny and even Jamie is surprised by how strongly she feels about the issue.

My understanding (and someone older can feel free to correct me if necessary) is that the suburb they are in is good but that it was not nearly as expensive in the 1980s as the neighborhood would be today.

All of this works for me. I can't wait to see Eddie at the family dinners. Do you think she'll find herself on the same side as Danny or arguing with him? Triumph made motercycles. I think that's what Brando's character rode in The Wild One. Frank does have a picture of Teddy Roosevelt behind Frank in his office. I liked the exchange of vows at the table. It means the show can skip all of the wedding planning craziness and pick up next season with the two of them already married. She doesn't strike me as the type who wants a big fancy crazy wedding. I can picture her wanting a small, simple ceremony with close friends and family.

I thought for sure the first Relationship Agreement was going to be with one of siblings, but I'm thrilled we got to see how it started. Overall, I enjoyed this episode. I wonder if Georgie watches Who's the Boss and thinks Tony has a pretty sweet deal because he doesn't have to work at what Georgie would consider a "real job." I love the idea. I can picture this conversation about thier first. Amy: Maybe it's like Neville in Harry Potter. He won't show magic/signs of genius until he's older. Sheldon: You've been saying that for years. Since they do have children there is the potential for one of them to be a genius.

Yes! I love that Stuart has found someone who can really geek out with. I hope it works out for them. Agreed. As someone who watches a lot of sitcoms, I kept thinking, what is going to go wrong, and never in a million years would I have come up with that. It was so in keeping with who the characters are, and it was a wonderful moment. My guess is that since Beverly isn't sentimental, they will explain it away with she had a commitment, like an important presentation at a major conference or something similar. I really wish this had been an hour long. It felt like there was so much more they could have done, and it all would have been fantastic.

I wondered if we would see some of the people from her Gambling Anonymous group become semi-regular characters. It might be a good way to bring in some new and different characters. Also, I wonder specifically if they were looking to add male characters who were not a love interest, because Christy mentions that the group was mostly men. I thought Gus was just a big, adorable, fuzz ball. I loved the way Bonnie made such a fuss over him. Anyone else wonder if Adam really will teach Gus to get beer out of the fridge? It seems mildly plausible.

Isn't that who they would want, someone who can get in and out of a room without being detected? My theory is that seeing how things went with Paige, the Center may have decided that waiting a little longer to recuit is a better idea. Henry going to boarding school probably impacted thier plans as well. I don't know what magazine ads were like in the 1980s, but I could picture an ad for an airline, a travel company, or something involving an airplane window. There was a real Philip Jennings. He died as an infant. The KGB used that birth certificate for Philip, and when he "married" Elizabeth, she took his last name. I can't wait to see how Henry learns the truth and how reacts to the news.

That could work. He's used the travel agency before so it wouldn't seem out of the ordinary. I like the idea that Stan is just talking to people while Philip is in the office on the phone. Loved the Bewitched reference. Pretty sure its spelled Kravits. Now I'm picturing a version of The Americans with Mrs. Kravits as one of their neighbors. It used to be that people did not get a Social Security card until they started working. I don't think Social Security numbers were issued at birth until sometime in the 1970s or the 1980s. For someone of Philip and Elizabeth's generation getting a Social Security number as a teenager or as an adult would have been the norm.

I have been asking variations of this question all season. I think stuffing Annaliese into a suitcase was more disturbing, but to each his own. Also, why did they leave her feet attached? Couldn't law enforcement identify her with footprints? It wasn't Philip leaving, it was the conversation he had with Henry in the car. Especially when Stan found out from Henry that his parents leave for trips all the time at the last second based on phone call. Even if she hasn't, I'm sure Elizabeth and Philip have a cover story, because asking a couple how they met, especially when they were young newlyweds (based on their cover story) seems like a common enough question. I love this idea, and I think there's still plenty of time for it. We still have three episodes. Henry doesn't actually know anything. This is what I've been predicting for awhile. Henry says something that as far as he knows is totally innocent but it causes Stan to start putting the peices together or gives him valuable new information. I'm guessing the question about his friend's mom was because it's the 1980s and two career families were becoming much more common.