To describe The Americans’ series finale would make the ending sound vaguely anti-climactic: long-established relationships end without much resolution, characters are only given half-hearted fa…
The Americans 6×09 Review: “Jennings, Elizabeth”
The Americans’ penultimate episode, titled “Jennings, Elizabeth,” perhaps serves as little more than pure rising action, but its phenomenal sense of drama keeps the suspense characte…
The Americans 6×08 Review: “The Summit”
“The Summit” may very well mark the beginning of the end for The Americans; Stan Beeman is now fully convinced Stan and Elizabeth are the two Soviet spies he’s been trailing, the brooding spy couple f…
The Americans 6×07 Review: “Harvest”
The seventh episode of The Americans devotes a good chunk of its running time to an extended heist apprised in the previous episode, “Rififi,” as one that’s destined for failure. Here it ends with fou…
The Americans 6×06 Review: “Rififi”
The title for The Americans’ sixth episode will leave a few cinephiles raising eyebrows. Rififi’s director, as mentioned in the episode, is the American expatriate Jules Dassin who fled his home…
The Americans 6×05 Review: “The Great Patriotic War”
We’re now about halfway through The Americans and already the show is beginning to commit to the catastrophic implications reinforced by the show’s previous four episodes. Aside from a couple de…
The Americans 6×04 Review: “Mr. and Mrs. Teacup”
In the fourth episode of The Americans, Philip and Oleg talk about the dissolution of the Soviet government, but what hangs more desperately over the show is the possible dissolution of Philip and Eli…