May 30 2018
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The end was written in the history books. Philip and Elizabeth Jennings were on the losing side of The Cold War, and …
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May 23 2018
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May 16 2018
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“The Summit” is driven by moments of incredible tension, but somewhat uniquely for The Americans, those moments…
May 9 2018
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By traditional metrics, tonight’s episode of The Americans extends the series’ recent hot streak. But scored by a…
May 2 2018
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Years before Joe Weisberg created The Americans and ran the show alongside Joel Fields, he was a case officer for…
Apr 25 2018
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I did it without thinking. When Jim Baxter leaned in to kiss Kimmy Breeland, I instinctively mashed the following…
Apr 18 2018
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Elizabeth and Philip Jennings are failing. It’s a reality often acknowledged by The Americans: Not every objective…
Apr 11 2018
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Three episodes of The Americans’ final season down, three deaths at the hands of Elizabeth Jennings. I’m no FBI…
Apr 4 2018
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Is there a more quintessentially Americans scene than the one between Stan and Gennadi in “Tchaikovsky”? Summoned to…
Mar 28 2018
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The queasy fear at the heart of The Americans is that it was always going to come down to this: Spy versus spy,…
May 30 2017
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In “The Soviet Division,” the final episode of season five of the FX series The Americans, married travel agents…
May 23 2017
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Paige Jennings is TV’s opposite teenager. It’s a trick in The Americans’ storytelling repertoire that the show uses…
May 16 2017
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The slow burn was always going to be a challenge as The Americans entered its end game. When so much time and so…
May 9 2017
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When The Americans plucks at the heartstrings, it sure finds a unique way of doing so. Or, to quote the showrunners,…
May 2 2017
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How many times has this happened to you: You’re watching taut basic-cable drama The Americans, and a long-running…
Apr 25 2017
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The Americans’ showrunners Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields promised that season five would have fewer of the energizing…
Apr 18 2017
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As Gabriel leaves America (and, it appears, The Americans), everyone talks of sacrifice. Picking up from the…
Apr 11 2017
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“Crossbreed” is the type of Americans episode that makes you want to grab an Emmy voter by the lapels and scream,…
Apr 4 2017
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Philip and Elizabeth Jennings didn’t have to fall in love. It wasn’t in the assignment. In fact, it’s arguable that…
Mar 28 2017
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The Americans still knows how to pull off a surprise. For example, I never would’ve pegged Stan Beeman as the first…