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The sentence will be carried out very shortly (SPOILER)


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Poor Nina.
He wasn't kidding was he? !!

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Yeah, talk about literal. Poor Nina didn't even get a chance to cry over her impending doom. She only got so far as "nooo--," then boom!

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This death was such a blow to me. Why couldn't they kill one of the ugly characters!?

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I actually cried. And this is coming from a person that kept it together watchin Hodor hold the door. Nina was one of my favorite characters and I really thought she'd "save herself", showing she was her own woman and didn't need neither Oleg nor Beeman to rescue her.
Turned out the weight of all the back stabbing she did to other people was too heavy and she chose to risk her life rather to do it again. Goddamn, Nina.
This "redeem a character, make it seem they'll have a happy ending and then kill them" always hits me hard in the feels, at least when it's a character that I already loved before they were turned into a good guy.

R.I.P. Nina Sergeevna Krilova, I'll never forget you.

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It was a shocking, horrible moment. Brutal. I loved the character, and Annet Mahendru did a fantastic job as Nina. She is gorgeous.

They've made the Russian characters very sympathetic, for me. I keep forgetting whose side I should be on.

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They've made the Russian characters very sympathetic, for me. I keep forgetting whose side I should be on.


I believe that's the crux of the subtext of the show. Seeing the enemy as the individual, human beings. Do you still hate them when you do that?

The Americans is one of the best shows of all time.

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Fear not for the future; weep not for the past -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Yeah, it actually bothered me, because I had invested a lot of emotion in Nina. I had felt she would overcome her circumstances one way or another, but the machinery of the state dealt the final blow, and almost out of nowhere. :(

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This "redeem a character, make it seem they'll have a happy ending and then kill them" always hits me hard in the feels, at least when it's a character that I already loved before they were turned into a good guy.


What happened to the scientist she was helping? Did he get to go back to his family? I remember seeing something but it seemed to be a dream sequence. Did Nina manage to get a note to his son and did he get back a reply?


Teenage love affairs are about intensity, not longevity

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What happened to the scientist she was helping? Did he get to go back to his family? I remember seeing something but it seemed to be a dream sequence. Did Nina manage to get a note to his son and did he get back a reply?


No, she tried to send a letter to his son thru her ex husband-offscreen- but he got caught and therefore she was returned to prison. The Jewish guy stayed where he was.

So not only she didnĀ“t help him at all, she dragged her exhusband along with her.

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Thanks. I think I got a little mixed up with the dream sequence and got lost along the way, so thanks for the explanation. No one won in that situation. A pity.


Teenage love affairs are about intensity, not longevity

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that was the craziest execution i have ever seen. some next level *beep*

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I have a feeling something similar will happen to her in Tyrant.

Fighting a religious war is like fighting over whose imaginary friend is better.

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Tyrant the show or Tyrant an upcoming episode. Just wondering as there is a show called Tyrant and I don't know if you're stating that she is on that as well (in a similar role).


Teenage love affairs are about intensity, not longevity

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She is on the show called Tyrant, yes. Besides, how can "the same thing (get executed) happen to her" in an upcoming episode of The Americans entitled Tyrant? That makes no sense at all. Nina is already dead. Nothing else can happen to her.

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He didn't say "very." He just said, "The sentence will be carried out shortly."

By the way, Nina lives. She's on Tyrant now. That girl went from being Russian to being Arab in no time flat.

Carl Grimes will one day rule the world!

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That scene was shocking. It took me completely by surprise. But I like the fact that the show runners were willing to go there.

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WTF!! i can watch any scary movie late at night, by myself and in complete darkness and silence and still not be scared, but this execution will haunt me for days... i know nina's plot was getting a little boring, but there was so much they could have done with her character, such a shame to kill her off like this! very disappointed with the writers... maybe they thought we were getting a little too sympathetic towards the russians and decided to tip the scale a bit, i dont know, i just dont think she deserved it!
:-/

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it was..

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