The Americans [FX - Spoilers]

snubbleste wrote: »

Why was Phillip so angry with Paige at the end?
"you have no idea, no idea"

Was he talking about Matthew, himself, the FBI, the Americans?

It is left open to determination alright.

It might be the natural concern of a father upon realising that his daughter is having sexual desire for boys. Fear of her getting her heart broken or becoming pregnant.

It might be fear that she is only becoming involved with Matthew in order to get information out of him. As much as any father doesn't want to see his daughter become sexually active he especially doesn't want to see her lose her virginity for reasons other than love.

If she is doing this just for information and combine that with her wanting to learn self defence and the fact that she is doing such a good job with Pastor Tim. Philip may be concerned that she is starting to throw herself into the spy business without any real understanding of the consequences.

It could be that it is incredibly bad timing if she is genuinely falling for Matthew just as she may be about to leave for Russia.

I hope Philip takes over Paige's self defence training. After they way her Mum taught her to swim she might not survive it.

The Black Oil wrote: »

A little bit, yeah. Past ones have been quite arresting tonally, or through camera movement. I was reading the comments section on another site and someone said the s2 finale featured "Jared's bleeding out data dump", not sure I'd go along with that, I'd have to rewatch it.

On reflection I think that if we had seen the same story, in a different sequence it would have been a more dramatic finale. If we had seen Stan's joy at the possibility of eventually being a real family with the Jennings before William's death speech it wouldn't have been quite so obvious to the audience and to Philip that Stan still hasn't a clue his buddy is the enemy he is hunting. And if we had the tension and worry about what William might tell the FBI, bearing in mind he even knows they have a high school aged son called Henry, more keenly felt earlier in the episode. Then the sad scenes of Oleg and Arkady preparing to leave at the Rezidentura shortly before the final scenes where Gabriel advises the Jennings to leave the country. I think it would have been a more tense and shocking moment to end on. I know that thematically the last scene of each season has to be centred on Paige but I wish they could have found a way to do that without relieving the tension of being told the centre wants to abort their mission.

Delighted to see that The Americans is receiving some long overdue recognition from the Emmys. They've been nominated for outstanding drama series and lead actor/actress for Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell, Margo Martindale is up again for outstanding guest actress, and Persona Non Grata has been nominated for best writing.

Will they be flying planes or is it just an act

I'm sick of watching this months late on RTE. Any way I can legally watch it quicker?

Mrwhite1970 wrote: »

Same complaint about RTE. You email them and ask when it will be shown and you are told we cant tell you...wait for it..commercial reasons. I think the series has to up the anti. Its becoming a bit boring. A real twist is needed. I have tried the dark side and it fecks up your computer eventually.

Wow. 10 Years at it and I've never had a single problem.

I love that even in its fifth season it still makes me say "f*cking hell". Quality opener.

Stan gets all the girls!