Americans season 1 episode 8

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This is one of the many things that The Americans has gotten right in its increasingly exceptional freshman season. The pastels are kept to a minimum. The mom jeans are correctly worn only by moms. Instead what creator Joe Weisberg has given us is a damp and drab decade only just beginning. The colors are muted, the mood tense.

Americans season 1 episode 8

Things you buy through our links may earn Vox Media a commission. Claudia, a. I also think that the KGB totally set this up as a test for Philip to see what he would do and where his loyalties lie. Does he love Elizabeth? I think his love for her is for the sake of the kids now. The trouble is now that he has lied to her about what happened with Irina and we can all foreshadow that this will come out eventually. We have to assume the KGB knows everything, right? Pretty much every word of this turned out to be spot-on. Caught in an untruth, he fesses up; Elizabeth is quietly furious, and the doting wife disappears, replaced by the icy professional we always see when Elizabeth is out on jobs. Priorities, priorities. We had an arrangement, and it worked. A divorce would be painful to watch, yet the aftermath could be fascinating.

I like to think ahead.

Grannie shocks Elizabeth with the truth of what happened between Phili Nina Krilova : What do you want with us? One day, with Arkady and the others at the Rezidentura? Do you want to put them in jail? That's how policeman thinks, not how spies think. We want everyone to stay right where they are, and bleed everything they know out of them.

The title for The Americans really said it all this week, didn't it? There is a secret war going on that no one wants to become full-fledged combat, regarding both the U. That being said, the Jennings' marriage one of the strangest yet most honestly portrayed ones on TV went to some dark, sad places this week whereas the rest of us got a history lesson. This week, the show did a good job of having the characters ask some pretty straight-forward questions about why the U. Hit the jump for why we just have to "act like nothing happened. This week's spy-centric story was one of the best so far, because it was one of the twistier and most comprehensive plots we've gotten that has real repercussions for our main characters. Elizabeth and Philip are told to find an assassin that the KGB can no longer get in contact with to stop him from killing the scientists that are working on the anti-ballistics shield, probably because the KGB realized that's not really subtle enough for a secret war. As Claudia who we're back to calling Granny points out, if you start killing government scientists, where does it end? The U. Per usual, the Jennings aren't given much read: any information on who they are supposed to be looking for other than the fact he's from West Germany, and it's up to Philip to work his contact Martha to get information from her.

Americans season 1 episode 8

Grannie shocks Elizabeth with the truth of what happened between Phili Nina Krilova : What do you want with us? One day, with Arkady and the others at the Rezidentura? Do you want to put them in jail? That's how policeman thinks, not how spies think.

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The Americans season 1. See the list. Annet Mahendru Nina Krilova. Agent Brenn Rest of cast listed alphabetically: Alisa Paige See the full list. A divorce would be painful to watch, yet the aftermath could be fascinating. Nina doesn't care, kisses him and says she'll do everything for him. Related news. After an awkward dinner at the Beemans', Philip asks Elizabeth why she is giving him the cold shoulder. Matthew Beeman Vitaly Benko Archived from the original on March 24,

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I worry for Nina's future, and when Arkady questioned her about smuggling goods to sell back in Russia I thought she was done for. When he enters, the explosives in his radio detonates killing him, the scientist and two other FBI agents. The assassin backs himself near the bathroom and signals to a bomb placed on the wall behind Philip. Thank God we were only subjected to a few minutes of it -- to have lasted through any more of that meal and it would be been unbearable. An existing sexual relationship with an FBI counterterrorist agent who adores her — quite a bargaining chip. Series 1 Episode 3. United States. Director Bill Johnson. At home, Philip and Elizabeth examine the documents from Martha. Philip runs into Agent Amador. I like to think ahead. Chris Amador Holly Taylor Choose a password to create an account: Enter your password or sign in with a different email Forgot Password?