OT: The Americans - series finale
Well this is it folks. After 6 seasons, the whole shabang ends tonight at 10pm on FX. Episode runs a bit longer, an hour and a half, when including commercials.
Some good articles I thought I'd share regarding the end of an all-time great:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/arts/television/the-americans-end-se…
https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/5/29/17392150/the-americans-fx-final-s…
https://quartzy.qz.com/1291583/the-americans-series-finale-goodbye-to-o…
No matter how it ends, I'm sure going to miss this show. Truly one of the greats.
The episode title is "START" which leads me to believe that they get away.
and be the son he always wanted.
Elizabeth will for her country and Philip will for Henry.
The episode’s title comes from the START treaty between America and the USSR, which was proposed by the Reagan administration in the early ’80s, but not actually signed until George H.W. Bush was president.
Well, they get away too..... so..... I'm not that big of an idiot.
Curious what happens with Oleg ... he’s up there as one of my favorite tv characters of all time . Incredibly well-developed character and very good actor .
The final scene will be just a few seconds when Renee meets with a handler or turns a corner and leaves a dead drop.
But sharing one of my favorite scenes in the series... Matthew Rhys really deserves an Emmy:
Uh-oh....
I wish they would've provided a concrete answer regarding Renee. And Paige is just going to run her whole life?
Whether they have anything on her or not, she'd be pretty easy to crack under interrogation. Do a little time and then be some family for Henry.
Why was she running in the first place? Panic?
Stan's hunches were really paying off tonight. He tracked them down, had them at gunpoint ... and they talked him into letting them go. I be like dang.
And then Paige ditched them at a train station. Didn't see that coming. But going back to the safehouse seems like a bad move. And not in disguise, either. WTF?!
I kinda expected the Jennings to get gunned down by KGB hardliners upon their return. But I guess not.
I was glad to see Arkady but still worried.
I understand why the writers felt that the characters needed to have that exchange but I hated that scene. There's no way Stan just lets them drive out of that garage.
to just let them go.
I guess Elizabeth really sold it.
Thank you for being a friend?
Emmerich and Rhys in the parking deck scene was the whole thing and outstanding.
The melancholy bittersweet ending (they got away) was very appropriate and yet really disappointing. I wanted some Jason Bourne level shit. Phillip should have karate chopped Stan and Elizabeth should have shot Stan's partner after karate chopping him.
I wanted karate chops.
I think Stan is going to hit the bottle hard. He had a hunch that his best friend was a Russian illegal, and it turned out to be true. He lets them go, and Philip says in parting that he thinks Renée is one, too, but he doesn't know for sure. Stan's life is FUBAR.
He's got some experience coaching Olympic gold medal winners.
Show stuck to its ethos of not being a cheap action flick
I felt like the resolution was a little too everyone lives happily ever after.
Look, I know Oleg is going to jail for the rest of his life and Elizabeth and Phillip leave their children behind... but everyone lived.
- The rogue KGB should have killed off Elizabeth and Phillip.
- I know the garage scene was epic for a television show, but after realizing his best friends were spies and that his trust had been betrayed, he decides to let them go?
Also, given how much the show kept us updated on the politics of the era throughout, it was actually remarkable how they didn't resolve anything regarding the treaty negotiation or the rogue faction within the KGB.