The Americans on FX

[Baby Lee]

Look, I don't expect you to understand this, he was willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good.


Oofah!!!

[Baby Lee]

What a creepy sad ending to the episode

[KC native]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

What a creepy sad ending to the episode

I thought it was awesome. His reticence to bring his daughter into the spy game juxtaposed against him using someone slightly older than his daughter in the spy game.

This season is going to be good.

I'm surprised they managed to keep Nina's character in the story line (happy about it though because that bitch is fine).

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by KC native

I thought it was awesome. His reticence to bring his daughter into the spy game juxtaposed against him using someone slightly older than his daughter in the spy game.

This season is going to be good.

I'm surprised they managed to keep Nina's character in the story line (happy about it though because that bitch is fine).

Oh, I thought it was awesome too. But the sadness comes from the juxtaposition of trying to protect his own daughter and imagining what he's going to have to do to turn that poor girl.

[Baby Lee]

OK, it's been a week and I don't think I've gone an hour yet without Only You going through my head.

This show has a preternatural ability to pick out the very best music of the period, almost makes me want to travel back to there.



Best music moment since I commented on it last season.

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Man, can they find poignant, often forgotten 80s music for their ending montages or what?

Peter Gabriel's Here Comes the Flood, haven't heard that since it was cassette.

[KC native]

So who breaks down first, Phillip or Elizabeth?

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by KC native

So who breaks down first, Phillip or Elizabeth?

Elizabeth never breaks. That is a stone cold bitch for mother Russia. She's views her entire existence as an assignment in hell for the greater good. Phillip thinks there is a reality to the life they've created.

Elizabeth would kill Paige with her bare hands and fold her up in plastic if the mission called for it. She'd probably do the same to Phillip if need be.

[KC native]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

Elizabeth never breaks. That is a stone cold bitch for mother Russia. She's views her entire existence as an assignment in hell for the greater good. Phillip thinks there is a reality to the life they've created.

Elizabeth would kill Paige with her bare hands and fold her up in plastic if the mission called for it. She'd probably do the same to Phillip if need be.

I would agree with that in the past, but she is beginning to show cracks this season. The legitimate bonding between Phillip and Paige is really starting to get to her.

I also think Phillip would kill her in a heartbeat if Elizabeth broaches the spy subject before he feels she is ready to at least have the conversation.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by KC native

I would agree with that in the past, but she is beginning to show cracks this season. The legitimate bonding between Phillip and Paige is really starting to get to her.

I also think Phillip would kill her in a heartbeat if Elizabeth broaches the spy subject before he feels she is ready to at least have the conversation.

I guess it means what you mean by crack, as a spy or as a parent.

I see Elizabeth as a spy who happens to have kids. I see Phillip much more ambivalent in each camp inside the home, though he is resolutely a spy outside the home.

[KC native]

Originally Posted by Baby Lee

I guess it means what you mean by crack, as a spy or as a parent.

I see Elizabeth as a spy who happens to have kids. I see Phillip much more ambivalent in each camp inside the home, though he is resolutely a spy outside the home.

Definitely as a parent.

Both Phillip and Elizabeth are great spies. The question is when does the home life boil over and prevent them from being good spies (for me at least). Or when does Phillip decide to embrace the "easy American" life with his kids and defect.

[keg in kc]

Just binge-watched from about ep 5 of season 2 to last week's episode. Holy crap a lot happened.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by keg in kc

Just binge-watched from about ep 5 of season 2 to last week's episode. Holy crap a lot happened.

Ever had to fold up a dead asset like a wallet?

Every week, this show manages to bring out strong emotion with me.

It's amazing how long they can keep you focused on their roles as a 'typical suburban family' then blindside you again and again with what ruthless brutal spies they actually are.

pedophilia, assassination, body dumps, and that's just how they deal with strangers.

[KC native]

Nina Sergeevna is smoking hot.

Does she try to escape to the US after she is free or try to stay with Oleg when he comes back to Moscow?

[Baby Lee]

Another music choice knocked out of the park



I'm starting to think that Keri is just TOO HOT to play a spy. Maybe if she was constantly a femme fatale on some far flung mission. But to pose her as blending in and forgettable is stretching credulity. I see her and all I can think is 'I'd remember that into my senility.'

[Silock]

Martha gon die. I bet Elizabeth kills her to protect Philip.