Thursday, March 31, 2016

The Americans: Run Away! Run Away!

This could apply to Pastor Tim, who gives this episode its name, who is now in Elizabeth's crosshairs; or to Phillip and Elizabeth themselves, because of the knowledge Tim now has about them and its threat to their cover.

Saturday, March 26, 2016

Open Letter to the People I Work With Who Want Me To Do Social Work

Dear ER Colleagues,

This is your friendly mental health worker, the one who meets with suicidal, homicidal and/or psychotic patients to screen them for admission to our psychiatric unit, or who calls 50 other hospitals in the state with psychiatric units, hoping they have a bed when we don't.

I really enjoy working with you, and I really enjoy my job, since it is completely focused on mental health and it is not really social work.  I would just like to remind you some of the things we in our department do, and the social work department doesn't, and vice versa.

Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Aaaaaand here we go again....


...with America's favorite KGB agents and their pals, that is. 


The Americans—Mission # 4, Episode 1
FX 22:00  3/16/2016






That includes ambivalent teen daughter Paige (or as her grandmother calls her, Pie-AGE) and oblivious tween son Henry (who names their kid Henry? That should have been a tip off to the FBI.) ( But then again, the FBI agent living closest to the Jennings' is Stan the Man, who is barely aware of anything besides his own navel.)