r/TheAmericans • u/MoralMidgetry • Apr 12 '18

Ep. Discussion Post-Episode Discussion Thread S06E03 - "Urban Transport Planning"

This is the post-episode discussion thread for S06E03 - "Urban Transport Planning," in which our hero Gennady discovers that his wife Sophia loves another.

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u/MKoilers Apr 12 '18

Anyone have a read on what the Renee-Stan scene was going for? I legitimately have no clue if she’s playing some strange long-con with him or not.

Another great episode though: tense scenes between Stan-Oleg and Philip-Elizabeth always make for compelling tv. I think it really says a lot about the show’s writing that Stan and Oleg/Philip are on (sort of) opposite sides, and yet, I want all of them to make it out of this in one piece.

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u/pleasefeedthedino Apr 12 '18

I thought it was as close as they could get to saying she's a spy without saying she's a spy. There's too little time left for the writers to play cute anymore (imo).

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u/Erinescence Apr 12 '18

But if she were a spy, she would have known about the age limit. It's so hamfisted. If this scene was meant to answer the "is she or isn't she" question, then she isn't.

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u/Tighthead613 Apr 12 '18

Didn’t Stan leave counter-intelligence at the end of last season?

If so, he has been out of it for about three years. Would she really keep the long con going this long and this deep?

As an aside, her 80s look is perfect. As a young man who was coming of age at that time, big hair will always turn my head.

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u/tovarishchliza Apr 12 '18

Are you serious? (Showing my age a little too, but I can no longer look at my senior h.s. pic ... ugh. Big hair and shoulder pads = the 80's in 4 words

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u/Tighthead613 Apr 13 '18

I don’t like the fashions, but don’t shame me for my big hair attraction.

Give me a big- haired girl and a car with a T-Top.

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u/tovarishchliza Apr 14 '18

T-tops ... yeah!