TV Review: FX’s The Americans 3×3, “Open House”

The centerpiece of this week’s episode finds Philip and Elizabeth stuck in a situation they did not anticipate, but have the ways and means of getting out of.  It is a portion of the episode that puts everything aside, as…

TV Review: FX’s The Americans 3×2, “Baggage”

Titles for various TV episodes are not always that hard to decipher.  Friends even made it plain and clear by having a majority of their titles start with, “The One With…”  The Americans follow-up episode to its strong third season…

TV Review: FX’s The Americans 3×1, “EST Men”

America’s favorite family of seemingly regular people who are actually Russians spies living as Americans during the Cold War are back!  The acclaimed FX series, The Americans, returns to television this week and despite being a show that is not…

TV Review: FX’s The Americans 2×13, “Echo”

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: 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: 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: 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…