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…

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,…

TV Review: FX’s The Americans 3×12, “I Am Abassin Zadran”

Sorry, this one may be a little shorter than normal, but along with the covert battle that is the Russians versus the Americans, I will be checking out more adventures between the rebels and the Empire at the Star Wars…

TV Review: FX’s The Americans 3×11, “A Day In The Life Of Anton Baklanov”

If looking back on this season and seeing “A Day In The Life Of Anton Baklanov” as the low-point means anything, it is the fact that this superb season of The Americans has rarely made a misstep and when it…

TV Review: FX’s The Americans (3×10) “Stingers”

Throughout this season, I have made reference to Henry Jennings at the very end of these reviews, as the character who has very little to offer. He is disconnected from much of what goes on, even though he lives under…