By the scary eyebrows of David Copperfield, that was a sensational season of TV.
This year gave them fewer missions they even got a vacation!
and storylines that cut deeper and played out more completely.
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No, they would not embitter their daughter and subvert her self-determination any more than they already had.
But their small revolution triggered a domino-fall that subverted the lives of many in their orbit.
It also slyly winked at a reference,Bridge of Spies, and implicitly whizzed on its happy ending.
Where thedeus ex machinais Tom Hanks?
Wheres the Holy Steven Spielberg!
angelic deliverance when you really need it?
(More on Copperfield, soon.)
She tried to break away from this mission, too.
She wanted to keep this grounded live-wire plugged into her life.
from a distraught Young-Hee, desperately needing her friend, her best friend…
I could barely listen to it.
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But yeah, there were bumps.
She looked so trapped, so alone.
Ill be alone, she told Philip.
Just the way it was before I met you.
You work alone, theres no one there tearing away at you, weakening you.
And youre still alone.
Williams laugh alone a jokers death rattle should get Baker an Emmy nomination.
(Interesting timing: this week marks the 35th anniversary of the first CDC report on AIDS.)
Yet his despair was also universally existential, too.
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But the motif had an interesting trajectory.
AMERICA DOUBLEPLUSGOOD!].
Seriously, I expect an episode next season that communes more directly withthatreference.
Until then, we sweat the choices sweating Elizabeth and Philip.
Gabriel instructed these travel agents to pack their bags and their kids and get back to the U.S.S.R.
It was time, he told them.
Philips heart wasnt in it; Elizabeth was getting ragged.
He was right, but they still looked sucker-punched and reluctant.
Elizabeth and Philip are no longer covers; they had become identities.
Their kids were Americans, not Americans.
And they know that the homeland they know a moment in time more than a place is gone.
Do they dare rebel once again against the Centre?
Should they stay or should they go?
Dont think of it as a cliffhanger, because it isnt much of one.
We know Philips adult son is making his away to the States to search for his dad.
And the storytelling cant cut bait on the Beeman boys.
Surely Paige and Matthew must play out their star-crossed, Romeo and Juliet love!
I cant wait to see what they decide.A
