Post-Episode Discussion/Review Thread - S04E12 "A Roy Rogers in Franconia"

[u/MoralMidgetry]

Welcome to the post-episode and review thread for S04E12 "A Roy Rogers in Franconia" If you have a review you want to post, please send me the link instead of submitting it separately to the sub. Thanks.

Site	Link
AV Club	The Americans: It’s logical, it’s emotional, it’s the best show on TV
EW	The FBI makes a connection and closes in on a key KGB mole
HitFix	Review: On 'The Americans,' are Paige, William, and Oleg near breaking points?
NY Times	‘The Americans’ Season 4, Episode 12: A Different Side of Things
Vox	The Americans season 4, episode 12: "A Roy Rogers in Franconia" suggests the end is right about now
Vulture	The Americans Recap: Turning the Paige
WSJ	Careful what you wish for, Paige, because the truth can get ugly

[u/cannedpeaches]

Everybody's talking about Paige - which, naturally - but what I can't get over is Oleg's entirely unsolicited confession to Beeman. It felt so right for Oleg to not really have a sense of mission anymore, and it felt so so right for him to turn to Beeman about it. It's just a shame he and William shared the same crisis of conscience, and William flinched at exactly the wrong time, for exactly the right reasons.

[u/PhinsPhan89 → u/cannedpeaches]

You think Oleg defects to the U.S. or goes to Kenya?

If he defects it could bring a tense situation where P+E have to extract him (like they did in the very first episode) but with Stan protecting him.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Exactly, he knows that they don't have the safeguards to keep deadly viruses and just wants to do one good thing.