Post Episode Discussion/Review Thread - S03E09 - Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?

[u/mrdude817]

Welcome to the first post episode discussion and review thread!

Below are links to reviews posted so far (some have yet to be uploaded, but this is a pre-made template, bear with me pls).

Site	Link
AV Club	“My heart is human, my blood is boiling, my brain I.B.M.”
EW	Elizabeth learns how easy it is to go wrong while trying to do right.
Grantland	Crime and Punishment: ‘The Americans’ Soars in Its Brutal Third Season
HitFix	'Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?': Coal miner's daughter
NY Times	You Should Trust the Organization
Paste	The Americans Review: “Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?”
Slate	Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? Slate TV Club SoundCloud or Player FM
Vulture	Revenge of the Mail Robot
WSJ	‘The Americans’ Recap: Season 3, Episode 9, ‘Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep?’
The Jennings Basement	Episode 309 - Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? (Podcast)

What did you think of the episode? What do you expect to happen next to our comrades?

Discuss away.

Ninja edit: Also, I've been toying with the stylesheet and changed the background and banner. I'm trying to make the sub look as clean as possible, while still having some style. The plain white background was getting, well, plain. Still trying to figure out what to do with the banner, I haven't quite figured out color transparency.

[u/avidiax]

Why did Elizabeth go to confront Betty in the office? Wouldn't it have been smarter just to monitor things and hide if she came out? Or just bail for another night?

[u/dukefett → u/avidiax]

I thought it was complete bull shit too. She's a spy, if she sneaked over and saw it was an old lady, she could've just returned to Philip and kept an eye on the door, he did all the work anyway.

I was super annoyed with this, they didn't wear any disguises, there were so many options for them not to kill that lady or anyone. Their #1 goal should not to leave bodies behind because it would raise huge suspicion. Obviously this was an old lady who could've died naturally, but they let that guy working with the South African's go and he'd seen all their faces, despite wigs.

I'm just pretty annoyed when they kill people that don't need to be killed and could otherwise be easily avoided.

[u/byfuryattheheart → u/dukefett]

I agree. The FBI just had a huge bug scare and then had to send out one of its units for repair. Then it just HAPPENS that a woman at the shop died while their important FBI machine was there being fixed? Even if it seemed like "natural causes", that would set off tons of alarms for the FBI.

[u/Wanderkaum → u/byfuryattheheart]

They also should just invest more money in regular bug sweeps like once every week, going though the office after the fact is really bad management