TV Thread - beware, [expletive] can get spoilery

[ghostrunner]

Just watched this week's episode of "The Americans". Great show, just as good as ever--but I could really be happy with never seeing Stan's ex-wife again. Unless she's some kind of sleeper agent she is doing nothing for the show.

She's just there as a prop to allow Stan's painfully emotional moment after nearly getting offer by Oleg. Both of which were awesome scenes.

I agree. I thought it turned his desperation up another notch. He just had a gun pointed at him after what they've established is his routine movie (porn?) rental. He can't be with Nina, so he goes to see his wife (his backup option) for some comfort and embarrasses himself. I assume it's building toward something.

I dunno, I just don't find Stan's marital troubles interesting at all. The rest of the show is so awesome.

I don't get the feeling they're trying to invest you in Stan's marriage. Just trying to show that he's in a bad way. Seems like they might be setting him up to be compromised again.

[heyzeus]

Just watched this week's episode of "The Americans". Great show, just as good as ever--but I could really be happy with never seeing Stan's ex-wife again. Unless she's some kind of sleeper agent she is doing nothing for the show.

She's just there as a prop to allow Stan's painfully emotional moment after nearly getting offer by Oleg. Both of which were awesome scenes.

I agree. I thought it turned his desperation up another notch. He just had a gun pointed at him after what they've established is his routine movie (porn?) rental. He can't be with Nina, so he goes to see his wife (his backup option) for some comfort and embarrasses himself. I assume it's building toward something.

I dunno, I just don't find Stan's marital troubles interesting at all. The rest of the show is so awesome.

I don't get the feeling they're trying to invest you in Stan's marriage. Just trying to show that he's in a bad way. Seems like they might be setting him up to be compromised again.

I think they place the seed of what's to come in Stan's gunpoint conversation with Oleg, when he offers to do basically whatever he can to save Nina. The Soviets are gonna make an offer (real or otherwise) to Stan that they'll save her if he gives them something they want, like Stealth or CIA agents in Afghanistan.

[TimeForGuinness]

In last night's Walking Dead, when Tyreese hallucinated Bob, did anybody else wish they would've started talking about Avon Barksdale?

When I saw that, I was hoping Gabriel (Carver) would enter the scene

[jim]

Two episodes in and I'm really enjoying Saul. I've got to go back and re-watch Breaking Bad sometime, that has to be my alltime favorite TV series.

[go birds]

So was the very beginning of the 1st episode supposed to be a clip of the very end of the show?

[thrill]

So was the very beginning of the 1st episode supposed to be a clip of the very end of the show?

I spoke to Vince Gilligan. He said yes. He's not one for building suspense or anything, so he thought he'd just give you the very end right off the bat.

[go birds]

So was the very beginning of the 1st episode supposed to be a clip of the very end of the show?

I spoke to Vince Gilligan. He said yes. He's not one for building suspense or anything, so he thought he'd just give you the very end right off the bat.

Oh come on you know that's not what i meant.

Hes notorious for showing scenes from the end of the season at the beginning of the season.

It certainly looks like Saul is in hiding.

[thrill]

So was the very beginning of the 1st episode supposed to be a clip of the very end of the show?

I spoke to Vince Gilligan. He said yes. He's not one for building suspense or anything, so he thought he'd just give you the very end right off the bat.

Oh come on you know that's not what i meant.

Hes notorious for showing scenes from the end of the season at the beginning of the season.

It certainly looks like Saul is in hiding.

I thought that was obvious. In Breaking Bad, Saul gets sent to Omaha. In BCS, there's an Omaha weather report. I'm sure eventually the show will catch up to that time period, if not the exact scene as Gilligan has been known to do.

[go birds]

guess i forgot he got sent to Omaha in BB

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

guess i forgot he got sent to Omaha in BB

idiot!