FX's The Americans

[flickchick85]

Stan finding out is something where if it doesn't happen I'll be okay with.

Nah, I need Stan to find out. Just like I needed Hank to find out in Breaking Bad. No matter how amazing this final season is, it just won't be wholly satisfying for me without that.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Nah, I need Stan to find out. Just like I needed Hank to find out in Breaking Bad. No matter how amazing this final season is, it just won't be wholly satisfying for me without that.

I might be wrong about this, but didn't the CIA not know the identities of the illegals until years later? I'm just going by that but whether I'm wrong, I can understand if they'd forgo that and have him find out.

 

[flickchick85]

I might be wrong about this, but didn't the CIA not know the identities of the illegals until years later? I'm just going by that but whether I'm wrong, I can understand if they'd forgo that and have him find out.

I don't know.

 

[Lencho01]

I liked how none of Elizabeth's plans/jobs worked out how she wanted.

 

[Kaleb]

I might be wrong about this, but didn't the CIA not know the identities of the illegals until years later? I'm just going by that but whether I'm wrong, I can understand if they'd forgo that and have him find out.

You're not wrong, the illegals program was uncovered in 2010,its why I'm not expecting anything dramatic to happen at the end.

Honestly I can see the final scene being Henry coming home from boarding school, enters the house drops his bags and notices all is quite and he looks around walks into the kitchen and see's Paige,Elizabeth and Philip lying on the floor poisoned.

Then later its revealed that it was Stan's girlfriend who poisoned them and its finally revealed she was a Russian spy all this time.


This way they can keep the Illegals program intact

 

[Aximili86]

Stan finds out, but Phillip is forced to kill him before he can pass it on to the FBI and expose Elizabeth/Paige, is probably likely.

It'd be bleak as hell though. But this show...kinda...is that.

 

[flickchick85]

Yeah, I fully expect Stan to find out, but not live long enough for his bosses to find out.

 

[Smilodon]

I think about all those seasons the Jennings got away scot free in the end, able to just barely escape the clutches of Stan and the Feds, and then compare to this season - where the twilight of the Cold War is causing everything around Philip and Elizabeth to crumble, and can only imagine how tragic the ending of this show will be.

I think Shawn Ryan (the showrunner of The Shield) said how drama is blocking off every other alternative and escape until only one inevitable conclusion remains, and I feel like each episode is gradually blocking off escape routes for the Jennings. It's exciting and interesting to see, but at the same time, I'm also dreading it.

 

[kvz5]

Philip finally reached his tipping point!

NGL I got an odd sense of satisfaction from seeing Philip kick Paige’s ass even though I don’t blame her for smacking that drunk guy. She was too smug and implying that Philip is a softie compared to Liz and her.

 

[flickchick85]

Agreed but at the same time I was like, "this is a father and his daughter. "

 

[kvz5]

The end was a bit uncomfortable but I still laughed.

So some are speculating that Stan was watching Philip’s reaction way too closely when he was telling him about the couple’s fate. Do you guys think he’s on to them? I don’t think so for now but who knows...

 

[flickchick85]

No, I don't think so. But ya never know.

 

[Aximili86]

I'm having a little trouble with just how far Paige has come with the "do what needs to be done" stuff over such a short time, honestly. I mean, I like it, she's growing up from the usual touchy-feely ignorant teenage stuff, but it seems a little jarring given how she was only *just* easing out of that by the end of last season.

Still loving seeing her out there in the field fightin' the Damn Dirty Commie fight with mom.

 

[Smilodon]

There was a time skip though, so she had some training and was clearly avoiding some of the sketchier aspects of the job - so she feels as if she can handle it currently.

At this point in Philip and Elizabeth's character development, it's hard to see the events of this episode as shocking, but rather they're sad. Sad because it was inevitable. Makes for great drama though.

 

[Aximili86]

*Smacks self in face* Holy crap, I totally blanked on the 3 year gap with that last post.

Haha. Yeah, ignore me, I ramble. '84 to '87 obviously makes it a non-issue.

 

[Golgo-13]

Damn! Elizabeth really took care of business!

 

[X-Ray]

^ yeah she did. Philip did too when Paige called him out.

 

[Lencho01]

For a moment, I thought the kid was going leave the room and see.

I laughed at Philip easily besting Paige after pretty much calling him soft.

 

[Kaleb]

The end was a bit uncomfortable but I still laughed.

So some are speculating that Stan was watching Philip’s reaction way too closely when he was telling him about the couple’s fate. Do you guys think he’s on to them? I don’t think so for now but who knows...

Sounds like they just reading into it a bit too much, Philip and Elizabeth have done nothing out of the ordinary to make Stan suspicious.

 

[_Superman_]

For a moment, I thought the kid was going leave the room and see.

I laughed at Philip easily besting Paige after pretty much calling him soft.

Not surprising considering Philip can best Elizabeth as well if he wanted to.

 

[Aximili86]

Ehh, I don't know about that. Still haven't caught the latest episode yet, but throughout the series both Phillip & Elizabeth have been depicted pretty much as equals. Sure, he'd have a bit of a physical edge in a fight, but Liz does seem a little wilier & maybe a little more resourceful. Then there's the...yeah, each of them would hesitate if it came right down to it, but you'd sort of figure personality-wise Phillip would struggle with it all even more than she would.

 

[Luigi]

The way Phillip tilted his head after Paige tried calling him out.

You knew **** got real at that moment.

 

[kvz5]

How Elizabeth ever thought Paige is the golden child is beyond me. Henry is a natural spy waiting to happen. If he isn’t already. Kid picks up stuff no one has.

I predict the preview for next week’s ep is misleading.

 

[Aximili86]

It'd be one thing now post-timejump, but I figure the whole reason Henry was never even an option was he was just too young for all of this **** throughout most of the series. Even Phillip & Elizabeth were first recruited at what, 17, 18, 19? They're not going to burden him with all this knowledge at 14/15, especially with how hard Paige was struggling with it all for like a season and a half.

Given right up until the end of last season they were 50/50 on whether to just pack it in and go home, makes sense they wouldn't read in Henry. Guess they could now, but given it's a final season and all...

 

[flickchick85]

I'm not sure how I feel about this newly perceptive Henry.

And yeah, the promo for next week is clearly misleading us.