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However, most everything else fell completely flat. Renee? Who gives a fuck? Everything about her and her storyline going back seasons were garbage, and in the end there was no payoff, no conclusion, nothing.
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Didn't she first show up last season? Either way, the "conclusion" is that Stan is conceivably going to be tormented by doubt and trust issues with her. I think the way they had Philip phrase it was perfect...having him reveal/confirm her as a spy would be overkill but this is a way to show how Stan will always be consumed by the fear that someone else will do to him what Philip had done. If she's not a spy, and she may not be, that marriage is fucked anyway.
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But my biggest gripe is the lack of any repercussion or consequence for Elizabeth "turning" in the last few episodes. That was supposed to be a huge betrayal, right? So....what? It's like they forgot it even happened and nothing the characters did or said even hinted that it even happened.
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Once it became known that the Centre was effectively trying to overthrow Gorbachev, and was willing to fake its agents' reports to do it, they all got the hell out of there. Which is why Oleg getting pinched and not being able to get that message back home was a problem. The biggest point in that garage scene where Elizabeth got fired up was when Stan brought up Oleg and the dead drop and Elizabeth said that message HAD TO get back, otherwise everything they did was for nothing.