Something I really enjoyed about the rather terrific season finale for The Americans is the way it ended its most obvious conflict about 2/3rds of the way through the episode, with plenty of time to find other ways to pull…
TV Review: AMC’s Mad Men 7×6, “The Strategy”
“The Strategy” offers a nice shift back to what makes Mad Men accepted by all that enjoy this series. While last week’s episode, “The Runaways,” did its best to jump in some different directions, while still utilizing key elements of…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 2×12, “Operation Chronicle”
We are in the home stretch of The Americans, which, as I mentioned before, has been renewed for a third season, making me very happy, given the strength of this second season. As great as it is to see everything…
TV Review: AMC’s Mad Men 7×5, “The Runaways”
It is episodes like “The Runaways” that can make Mad Men such a difficult show to cover on a weekly basis. It is not a matter of quality diminishing necessarily, but Matthew Weiner and his team certainly have a lot…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 2×11, “Stealth”
We have now gone through a complete reversal in this 3rd to last episode of a very strong season of The Americans. At the beginning of season 2, Philip and Elizabeth were hit hard by the murder of two of…
TV Review: AMC’s Mad Men 7×4, “The Monolith”
We get a break from Betty this week, but Harry Crane is still in full force, as he now has the computer he has desperately wanted being setup in the office. Being that it’s 1969, this means an entire room…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 2×10, “Yousaf”
Towards the end of this week’s episode of The Americans, we see two female characters strike up a cigarette, after completing their mission. While this is the kind of symbol that could suggest “job well done”, it comes at quite…
