Ha! In tonight’s episode we get a glimpse of someone’s new life in the USSR!
BTW, anyone else wonder if Stan’s new love interest is a Soviet plant?
I’m working through this now, starting at season 1. Good stuff.
Reminds me a bit of Breaking Bad, particularly the Hank vs. Walter narrative they’re setting up here with the FBI agent across the street. The secrets you keep as a married couple, plus spies (or drug dealers), definitely reminds me of BB as well.
They killed poor old Amador :(
Holy shit that tooth removal scene in season 3, episode 3. I love that they were like, nope, not done yet, gotta go back in again for the rest of the tooth.
Also these Scrabble scenes with Frank Langella, fuck, they’re worth whole seasons.
Heh–I sure wish my folks in my younger days had lined up three very eligible young women as dinner guests as Oleg’s did in tonight’s show. Although maybe not all at the same time, admittedly.
Strange that Oleg seems to be railing against a controlling father who meddles, and then goes to meet the CIA which is also trying to bend him to their will. Maybe he was going there to draw a line and tell them to die in a fire?
Me too. Actually, having three good looking women compete for my attention at the same time would have been pretty nice.
My only nitpick about the show is the girl’s teeth were all too good. In the late 80s early 90s I went to the Soviet Union a couple of times and the translators were all good looking, except they had awful dental work. I later found out they did all work for the KGB, but I clearly wasn’t important enough they I got an escort.
I can’t point to anything I don’t like in this season, but it doesn’t really have its hooks in me this year. Someone talk me into loving this again.
Well, tonight’s show hasn’t aired where I live yet so I don’t know, but there’s always the possibility that Stan’s new love interest Marita Covarrubias* is a Soviet agent. And I’m curious to see how Paige takes to being a spy (a mere 6 or so years before the end of the USSR).
*bonus points if you know why I’m calling her that before looking it up on Google.
This season is a slower burn but I’m not enjoying it any less.
I feel like this series has nowhere reasonable left to go. It has dug itself into a hole. You can’t actually have your teenage daughter be a real spy, party to killings, etc.
The whole second wave native born children sleeper spy conversion thing was a stretch to begin with, even as a plot conceit. But carrying it out? I … can’t take this seriously.
I couldn’t buy the fake wheat-killer. Too implausible.
I don’t know why I find it implausible when we have nuclear trinities, biological and chemical warfare, and outlandish assassination attempts against Castro (exploding cigars, machine gun in a camera, etc etc.) Maybe because it’s NOT destructive enough?
Good lord this show has almost no forward narrative momentum, glad it’s wrapping up next season. At least I got to see my precious Kimmy:
I love you Julia Gardner please lift the restraining order!!
This would’ve been a great episode on its own, but yes, this was a slooooow season and the finale alone hardly justifies the pace getting here.
Yeah, this season definitely felt like the calm before the storm. BTW, my girl Laurie Holden is looking pretty suspicious, just saying. And Kimmy, @abidingdude , really? Nina, now we’re talking. Or that one other woman from the Rezidentura (the one involved in intelligence). Different strokes, though. :-)
So, speculation time: how will the series resolve?
Stan and the FBI catch up with Philip and Elizabeth (Mikhail and Nadyezhda), but Stan somehow suffers Hank Schrader’s fate (maybe in trying to get them to defect)?
I’m glad that not all season finales are Cliff hangers, but if any show can plausibly have a one it is the Americans so this finale seemed too low key. Definitely not my favorite season.
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Whatever, guy who doesn’t like Better Call Saul. The Americans has interesting ground left to cover, they just could’ve accomplished in about three episodes what this season dragged out.
That is a pretty accurate summary of Better Call Saul as well, at least the two seasons of it I saw.
Oh you.
That’s pretty much true of all works of fiction. You can condense everything to fit in the Cliff’s note version, or a playbill.