Anyone watch the FX series The Americans

I'm sure its an artistic choice, but I find the graphics going in and out of focus in the opening and bumpers annoying.

 

Americans best show on tv. Watch for Area B behind Ft. Detick. ( actual place and story
behind ft Detrick-Frederick,MD) very cool premier Season 5. FX

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I've seen worse. I think it's an interesting touch that they start off with Cyrillic characters and then it abruptly changes to English, which was (and is) pretty clever.

 

I always found the exploding car at the end of the opening sequence incredibly cheesy. I notice they've hidden it a little.

 

Martha!

 

You'd think after betraying her country (albeit unwittingly) and being brought to Russia as a sort of hero, she'd have access to the better food....

 

Glad to see 'Martha' getting some screen time in 'Feud'!

 

So, I was a huge fan of this series. I watched it religiously for four seasons and loved it. Now, we're in the fifth and final season and I can barely muster up the enthusiasm to get through an episode. I'm one episode in so far; not feeling it. Meh.

Tired of whiny Page, dumb dumb Stan, and TOUGH AS NAILS Elizabeth. The handlers are boring me too. What's up?

 

Maybe you need an iron supplement?

I think they are going to surprise us. I'm interested to see what they do with the son arriving via Hungary.

 

She was also in Sneaky Pete on Amazon.

 

This show brings a whole new meaning to "the personal is political".

Love it!

 

This is the final season? I thought we had a couple more to go. ?

 

It's last I'm pretty sure.

Edit: Nope, one more season after this one. Shows you what I know.

 

I can't imagine how you could love the first four seasons and be bailing on it now. The quality is still there, Paige isn't whiny, Stan isn't dumb -- what's the disconnect? (And yes, as you subsequently discovered, there are TWO seasons left -- this season and next. Don't you want to know what happens?!)

 

Not too much, no. I'm just tired of the plot line at this point.

 

I'm sorry to hear that, for some reason ... If you liked the first four seasons, and you know they're heading into the end run, it's reasonable to assume that the story will make some major leaps this season in preparation for the big finale. I've watched shows before too where I started to get weary of the story, or the characters -- but knowing it was all going to wrap up soon helps keep me interested.

 

I can never quite keep all the plot details of this show in my head from year to year. But I felt like last season there was a growing sense of things becoming dicey for Philip and Elizabeth, and that the show was heading toward its endgame... and now that urgency seems to be gone and it's back to business as usual for them. Which is always risky of course, but I feel like the overall atmosphere of tension has kind of dissipated (for reasons I can't remember!) so I'm not quite as drawn in.

 

The novelty of the concept has faded. I'm pretty close to bailing on it at this point also. The show has an oddly dreary vibe to it, feels kinda stale. And this season (so far) definitely feels like the same old, same old. I'll give it a bit more time but unless the storyline improves, quickly, I doubt that I'll keep watching.

 

I havent started watching this season but I've heard nothing but bad things from my fellow watchers.. Kind of disappointed.
At least BCS and Fargo start soon.

 

I'm not disappointed with this season, it seems as if it will be a slow burn towards the final season next season. So much potential to go wrong with Pastor Tim, Paige, the son seeking his father, Oleg being harassed and possibly blackmailed against Stan's advice etc. Like the potential of the fake Vietnamese son and the defector plot line as well.

 

it seems to me that will spend quite a bit of time this season in training page to be a spy.

 

I thought the scene where Paige walks out of school and the fighter jets haze everyone was pretty cool and not same ol' same ol'.

 

Somebody help me out. Why would Beeman give up his freedom and threaten to publicly confess to the murder of an innocent Soviet operative (in Season 1!) to keep the CIA from using Burov as a double agent? I don't understand his devotion to this guy. Is it the Nina connection?
Could Pastor Groovyhair be a latent Marxist?

 

Definitely the Nina connection, but also because Stan realized that Oleg is the same as he is -- a good guy trying to do the right thing for his country. Oleg took a huge risk by warning Stan about the virus/toxin plan, and Stan respected that. In an interesting parallel this episode, Oleg unknowingly did the same thing that Stan did earlier this season -- he went to his superiors and asked for a "better way" to deal with an adversary. Maybe Oleg was sensitive to this because he thought Stan was going to blackmail HIM, or maybe it was his basic decency. I think it was both.

As for Pastor Groovyhair, his hippie-dippie socialism was the only reason Elizabeth let Paige hang out with him in the first place -- she thought his liberal leanings might give Paige a back door to eventually understanding their communist beliefs.

 

Couldn't help but think of the phrase, "No good deed goes unpunished" in regard to Stan and Oleg's altruistic actions.

Also, could not believe Oleg told his mother about the blackmail/CIA contact. Seems like that just incriminates her and makes her vulnerable....The personal is bleeding into the political...or is that vice versa?