Call him Poor Stan or Sad Sack Stan, but one thing Noah Emmerich is not is lazy. Stepping back into the director’s chair for the second time in this series, “Clark’s Place” finds Emmerich continuing to shine in his efforts…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 4×4, “Chloramphenicol”
Juxtaposition plays a key role in any competent television series and The Americans is no different. Sometimes it comes in the form of a splashy action sequence, set to the music of the time, much like the ‘Tainted Love’ scene…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 4×3, “Experimental Prototype City Of Tomorrow”
Poor Henry Jennings. After weeks of tolerating comments about his smelly cologne and hanging out with Stan, the man who seems to pay the most attention to him, it finally seemed like things were going to turn around with a…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 4×2, “Pastor Tim”
It feels like the song ‘Tainted Love’ can be used almost anywhere, including terrifically exciting and off-putting scenes like the one I watched this week. While picking up exactly where ‘Glanders’ left off, ‘Pastor Tim’ is a good reminder that…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 4×1, “Glanders”
Quiet drama, locked doors and bad wigs! It looks like we are back with another season of The Americans. It may be underappreciated, but this series is picking up where things left off and doing little to change up what…
Jon’s Movie Review: ‘Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet’
From the time we are children, our books contain some kind of moralistic lesson or cautionary tale that we may not fully understand. Whether it is Dr. Seuss’ Oh, The Places You’ll Go or Homer’s The Odyssey, or even the Christian bible,…
TV Review: FX’s The Americans 3×13, “March 8, 1983”
I have found this season of The Americans to be fascinating in so many ways. What it may have held back, as far as big action beats and really cool uses of music (although it had its share) this year,…