The S4 finale for The Americans? Wow. The doom that loomed as Elizabeth watched Phillip pickup Paige from Stan’s was fantastically chilling and tense. How much did William give away when describing that beautiful woman and the man that’s, “lucky to have her”? How far will Mischa heading to the U.S. to find Philiip mess things up? How the heck are they going to do this for two more seasons? It’s only a matter of time before Stan and Phillip confront each other as rivals – they are chasing the same ghost after all. How many more plotlines can born and die on one show?
And I was thinking of a comment that someone I think here said about the show – that it’s basically a soap opera. I disagree not necessarily on content but on execution and depth of story. There are moments of lust, jealousy, angst, heartache, etc. But unlike most soap operas it’s not arbitrary nor just there because that’s what drams do – it’s always, always tied within at least 2 degrees of why they are there in the first place. Stan, his estranged wife and his son. Martha. Phillip, Elizabeth, their struggles in marriage as well as in raising their kids. Nina. Oleg and the rest in the embassy. Everything they experience, feel, react to, etc. are all tied to the spy game so maybe I’m just fooling myself but feels smarter than your average daytime drama bear.
