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#1 May 22 2014 at 6:06 PM Rating: Good
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Season 2 just wrapped up.

The choice of music wasn't as good as Season 1's finale.

The ending was, I think, more revealing than the first.

Jared killed his parents, who objected to him joining the KGB, and sister who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He knew everything all along. A natural born citizen spy, to have a flawless, real background and able to get into the higher tiers of the US Government. And now the Center wants Paige, Philip is against it, and Elizabeth is more for it. As seems to be the norm in the series so far. Philip has become very Americanized compared to Elizabeth. Given the opportunity I think he'd just ship in a heartbeat. Elizabeth is still loves Mother Russia.

And Stan loved his country more than Nina. Sorry Nina. (But just barely... he came very close to doing it).
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#2 May 23 2014 at 4:10 PM Rating: Good
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It was a good solid ending. I actually liked that they didn't end it with too much stuff hanging like they did last season (Although it's unclear if Stan is going to attempt some kind of crazy rescue of Nina though). And they've set it up with a good direction for next season without tying their hands too much.

Of course, the one thing that has increasingly bothered me about the series, is the massive overuse of these characters in direct and dangerous missions. You'd think that the people you've secreted into the US with deep deep covers would be the absolute last people you'd call for some high risk emergency mission involving gunplay and fistfights. But it seems like they get drawn into that sort of thing every episode or two. I just recall watching this last episode, where once again they're in a life and death situation where only a combination of skill, training, and ridiculous luck gets them out, and was thinking "how the hell did they make it this many years in the first place?". There's no specific indication that the need for their services is greater during the time period of the show versus say 10-15 years earlier (when the cold war was actually a lot hotter). Dunno. I suppose that's just one of those things you have to suspend disbelief over to watch the show, but I'd prefer it if the risks were more success/failure, not success/"get caught and cover blown, children killed, etc". You can only up that ante so many times before it becomes overused IMO.


Still think it's a really fun show, but that one thing I do kinda wish they'd tone down a bit.

Edited, May 23rd 2014 3:11pm by gbaji
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