“Tchaikovsky” doesn’t have the propulsiveness of “Dead Hand” - a surprising amount of it is spent on business at the travel agency, for instance - but it continues the season’s theme of the marital split between Philip and Elizabeth manifesting itself in their approaches to their respective professions. Is your duty more important, or your family? Should Paige hold back and not approach, or should she run in because she’s worried for her mom’s life? Or, let’s look at this another way: Is Elizabeth’s work with Paige stemming from her duty to her country or her duty as a mother to help her children become everything they can be? The knots are more twisted up than ever.
I think Elizabeth killed him, but if you disagree, reader, that’s just fine.)Īnd then Paige walks in and sees the bloody body. (Whether Elizabeth murdered the general or he killed himself was an open question in our group, thanks to the darkness of FX’s screeners. But after an extremely stressful grappling match, it’s the general who dies, leaving Elizabeth covered in his blood. What’s important here is that he refuses to work with her, then pulls a gun on her during their last meeting. (Dummy that I am, I forgot to check.)īut in the end, it almost doesn’t matter. When she contacts an old pal who can help her get hold of a piece of proprietary military tech, it’s natural to wonder if this guy has popped up in earlier seasons. In “Tchaikovsky,” we get to see an Elizabeth who’s running so many different operations at once that you might wonder how she remembers who she is. Remember in the season five finale when she told Tuan that the work they do is too difficult to do alone? (I don’t blame you if you completely forgot.) In “Dead Hand,” we got just a taste of how much it’s worn her down. Todd VanDerWerff: Last week, we learned that Elizabeth Jennings has been out there, being a spy, for the past three years, with no help at all from Philip. Elizabeth visits a long, mostly forgotten friend
This week, a variety of writers offer their takes on “Tchaikovsky,” the second episode of the final season. Every week, some of Vox’s writers will gather to discuss the latest episode of FX’s spy drama The Americans.
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