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a few notes on season 6 premiere...

posted 7 years ago by Sandoz (2021)
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So, picking up with the Jennings...

A significant amount of time has passed since last season, which was...what? 1984, or was it '85? Anyway, it's now '87 so years have gone be. Phil is out of the KGB and running the expanding travel agency, and Eliz is still kickin' ass like a killer comrade. Paige has grown a bit and actually looks pretty hot now. Henry--the asterisk of the Jennings family--plays hockey. Stan's been living with Andrea from The Walking Dead who evidently isn't working for the KGB too after all. Margo Martindale's series got cancelled so her handler character has returned to help with indoctrinating Paige (by showing her Russian comedies...is there such a thing?).

Based on the chilliness between Phil and Eliz, and the set-up for a confrontation between them (Phil has been told to "stop her" from completing her mission), I don't see things ending well between them. I'm beginning to get a feeling that someone in the Jennings clan may not survive this season. Right now, the obvious choice appears to be Elizabeth, if she adheres to her hard-ass Soviet stance. But it could just as well be Phil or even Paige who gets snuffed if the show wants to wring some tragedy out of the Jennings' perilous saga.

Elizabeth killing the Naval security guy was brutal. But I guess she had to do it to keep him from finding out Paige's ID was fake; that would have raised some serious red flags (and not the Commie kind either!).

Nice to see Oleg back this season. I like his character, and I'm glad to see there's more of an attempt to make him more integral to the fate of the Jennings this season.

Lastly, who's the bed-ridden artist? Did I miss some exposition about her because I don't know why Eliz was in disguise care-sitting her. She made some cool canvases, though.

[–] Mister Babadook (2709) 7 years ago

"Lastly, who's the bed-ridden artist? Did I miss some exposition about her because I don't know
why Eliz was in disguise care-sitting her. She made some cool canvases, though."

No you didn't miss anything, every season at the start theres usually an operation going on we don't know anything about, we usually find out in the next 2 or 3 episodes.

[–] Sandoz (2021) 7 years ago

Yeah, that makes sense considering it's at least a couple years passed since last season...obviously Liz has been keeping busy.

[–] Mister Babadook (2709) 7 years ago

But from what i seen it looks like the artist woman's husband has some important job, so i'm assuming its him Liz is trying to get close to for information.

[–] Jobimfan (95) 7 years ago

Gorbechev is in power so it's got to be 90 or 91. Phil's pull out car stereo and the computers in the agency are also clues as to the year.

This show is actually based on a real story. There were sleeper spies in Canada who were caught. It became complicated because they were deported with their kids who (a) had no idea their parents were Russian and (b)were born and grew up in the West so they spoke no Russian and were totally westernized. The kids kept trying to sue to go back to Canada for college but they were pretty much banned from returning for life. One of the kids gave an interview and he talked about how bad it was for the kids when they got Russia.

I suspect that Henry may play a bigger part in this than he did in prior seasons since he's the only one not in "the family business".

It's cool how they brought Oleg back, like full circle, he is very hot with that beard. I am afraid for him though; I hope he gets home to his wife and baby okay.

The artist is married to someone who is involved in the US/Soviet talks. I guess she's going to search the house, maybe bug it, maybe she's going to seduce him and try to blackmail him.

[–] Sandoz (2021) 7 years ago

A couple of things...

It's 1987, not the 90s, at the start of this season.

Gorbachev came to power in 1985.

Oleg is not the guy with the beard. He's the guy who asked the guy with the beard to talk to Phillip.

[–] beauq81 (1142) 7 years ago

Oleg is the guy with the beard. The other man is Arkady, Oleg's boss from their DC post.

[–] Sandoz (2021) 7 years ago

My mistake....can't tell these damn Rooskies apart!

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Yes, the Washington Summit they are discussing took place on December 9 -11, 1987. They said Elizabeth has ten weeks till the summit, so this must be starting in late September of ‘87.

Little confused - is Oleg and Arkady for the summit and in favor of Gorbachev? I’m thinking yes, and Elizabeth is working for those against him.

[–] Sandoz (2021) 7 years ago

is Oleg and Arkady for the summit and in favor of Gorbachev? I’m thinking yes, and Elizabeth is working for those against him.

Yes, that's how it's setting up for this season. Arkady sent Oleg to talk to Philip because Elizabeth is still a true believer Commie and she's going to try and disrupt or stop the summit. It seems this final season is going to see the Jennings fighting each other on opposite sides...finally. Looking forward to seeing what happens.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Thanks! There’s also 19 episodes to the season, so I’m guessing each episode will be a week closer to the summit - since they said she had ten weeks to go.

[–] Sandoz (2021) 7 years ago

Sorry to break this to you, but this is a ten episode season...so there's only 9 episodes to go.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I meant to type in 10 - don't know how 19 showed up! Sorry for the confusion! LOL

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

Yes I’m thinking the exact same thing!

[–] DarthJJ (355) 7 years ago

The calendar in the travel office during ep2 said "87".

[–] Sandoz (2021) 7 years ago

October 1987, to be precise.

So if the summit is in the 2nd week of December, that means events in the show will play out for the remainder of the season mostly over a course of 6 to 10 weeks (approximation based on not knowing what specific day in Oct that episode 2 took place on).