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