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: 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…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 2×9, “Martial Eagle”
At the end of the very first episode of the TV series Justified, another FX drama produced by Graham Yost, a character tells Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan Givens character that she think he’s the angriest person alive. In this week’s episode…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 2×8, “New Car”
Early in tonight’s episode Philip asks Elizabeth, “Don’t you enjoy any of this?” which is met with a hazy acknowledgement that things are easier for her in America, but it ultimately does not matter, as the mission is what is…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 2×7, “Arpanet”
Keri Russell has been getting a lot to do on The Americans in recent weeks and she has been pretty terrific. This week Elizabeth only gets so much to do though, as it is more the Nina hour, with a…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 2×6, “Behind The Red Door”
Given a lot of the dark elements that made up this episode of The Americans, it is a little strange to say that so much of it revolved around the notion of Love. That said, sometimes love comes with darkness. …
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 2×5, “The Deal”
I am aware that The Americans is not the most popular show on television, but for those who have been keeping up, it’s been a good number of weeks for this series, with “The Deal” serving as one of the…