The Americans 6×03 Review: “Urban Transport Planning”

“Urban Transport Planning” amps up on the ambiguity as more and more character motives start to interweave into a more unsettling conflict of interest—the most disconcerting of these must be the ones between Oleg, Stan and Philip. As we know,…

The Americans 6×02 Review: “Tchaikovsky”

The second episode of The Americans, “Tchaikovsky,” continues “Dead Man’s” sense of impending demise—Ronald Reagan’s senility is mentioned (referencing the president’s onset of early Alzheimer’s) and the bedridden wife of the weapons negotiator is staking out plans with her husband…

The Americans 6×01 Review: “Dead Hand”

The American’s sixth and final season begins just as the Soviet Union’s dissolution does, perfectly fitting as both—in their own way—spell the beginning of the end of something. One is the end of a communist state, and the other the…

Movie Review: The Hollars

It’s unsurprising that The Hollars came to audiences by way of Sundance as it’s exactly the kind of movie Sundance became famous for in the 1990s and early 2000s. A family dramedy with immature son(s) coming of age at the…

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 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…