The Americans

5 Things You Need To Remember For 'the Americans

... series (who, unbeknownst to him, are the Jenningses). William’s delirium about a beautiful wife, her doting husband, and their two beautiful kids living the American dream as undercover agents doesn’t reveal anything to Beeman in the moment. But eventually something has to break. All of this basically began to unravel in Season 1 with a mysterious married couple who forced an innocent cleaning lady to bug the U. S. Secretary of Defense’s office, and it’s only a matter of time before he connects the dots to his suspicions about his next door neighbors. 1. Paige is part of the (KGB) family. The dramatic pull of the show since the end of Season 2 has been the Jennings family coming to terms with the idea that the Center plans on fostering a generation of U. S.-born KGB agents. Three tumultuous seasons later and their oldest child Paige (Holly Taylor) is still trying to make sense of her own identity as the daughter of Soviet spies who had to ...

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The Americans' Sees A Perfect Moment To Humanize Russian Espionage

... images and art for and against the divisive conflict. Jeffrey Brown reports.2017-03-02 18:00:00 __link__/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/artofwar-320 x 196.jpg 2365970256 n 7 tad G_Wgs Q 208565208557 __link__/newshour/bb/stop-asking-comedian-woman-comedy/Stop asking this comedian about being a woman in comedy Michelle Collins finds it annoying that funny women always have to talk about being a funny woman. "We're not charity cases; we're talented," she said. Collins gives her Brief But Spectacular take on being tall, makeup, white men on late night TV and why you should stop asking her what it feels like to be a woman in comedy.2017-03-02 18:00:00 __link__/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/collins-320 x 196.jpg 23659699264 slt FBO 7 XI 8. As investigations examine Russia’s role in ...

Costumes Across Climates On ‘the Americans’ And ‘girls

... getting ascribed a ‘winter’ or ‘summer’ moniker as I’m defining it; some are a mix of both because they shoot for most of the year (see network procedurals like Elementary ) or there’s not a whole lot of exterior filming. Location shooting plays a big part and it isn’t a coincidence that New York is where the three shows up for discussion shoot most of their scenes. Matthew Rhys as Philip Jennings and Keri Russell as Elizabeth Jennings. Patrick Harbron/FX. Let’s start with what kick-started this whole idea for me and that’s The Americans, which returns this week with knitted beanies in place, acting not only as light disguises but ear warmers for characters and actors alike. When I spoke to Americans costume designer, Katie Irish recently the subject of weather came up including the recent snow. In terms of costume prep it helps that The Americans tends to be set during the winter months and Irish mentions how “we’re not trying to dress someone like it is June in January.” There are also plenty of items on hand for colder outdoor days and Irish told me about the ones we can see on camera such as “‘80 s appropriate snow boots, ‘80 s appropriate ...

The Americans' Was Always An Uncomfortable Show, But Now It's A Scary One

... show is the questions it asks in between all the seductive spycraft. Season Five of The Americans, in the first three episodes that were made available to critics in advance, is largely concerned with people trying to leave things behind, like their countries, their jobs, and their beliefs. But there's no way to neatly extricate one life from many, to walk away from the ripples even one person's actions have set in motion. As The Americans tells it, people are implicit in the actions of the groups they belong to, whether they want to be or not: their families, their employers, their countries. But most importantly, The Americans explores why someone would act against the interest of those around them, why they would actively work to starve the poor and give away devastating weapons or disclose secrets than can destroy families and ruin futures. And the terrifying answer revealed in this season is that it isn't that hard. You bend for the things you ...

Turn Of Real-life Events Impacts ‘the Americans

... news services 12:08 a.m. ET March 7, 2017. Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell, who play Russian spies who use suburbia as a cover for anti-U. S. operations in “The Americans,” attend the Season 5 premiere last month in New York. “The Americans” returns to FX tonight. (Photo: Nicholas Hunt/Getty Images). CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN COMMENTEMAILMORE. As “The Americans” returns at 10 tonight for its fifth season, the FX drama’s fictional Soviet spies are competing for attention with real Russians. Cold War-style subterfuge seemed a historical relic when the story of Philip (Matthew Rhys) and Elizabeth Jennings (Keri Russell), married spies embedded in suburban 1980 s Washington, premiered in early 2013. Now, it’s front-page news. Investigations into Russian interference with the U. S. presidential campaign and ties to Donald Trump’s advisers may bring extra attention to the Emmy-nominated drama, but “that has been a very unwelcome turn of events for us,” executive producer Joe Weisberg says. “The show was conceived at a time when Russia was at peace with us and therefore it was easier to look at these characters from this bygone era and ...

Who Is Loving The Americans

... she’s also falling in love with Matthew, the son of the F. B. I. agent across the street. She wants to be a regular American teen-ager. With Tuan, there are no such complications. He’s from North Vietnam, hates America, and suggests that Philip and Elizabeth shoot the dissident in the head. “He’s a real piece of shit,” Tuan says. “He hates his homeland.”. Later, Tuan offers a withering critique of American kids—they’re obsessed with clothes, stuff their faces, and have no idea what real struggle is. Do Philip and Elizabeth agree with him? It’s hard to say, but when they come home to their own kids, they’re sweet. You can date any boy you want, Elizabeth tells Paige—“just not Matthew.” In its own way, in other words, this season is shaping up to be about the drama of immigration and assimilation. Can Philip and Elizabeth, as parents, reconcile themselves to the Americanized choices of their children. The new season activates another sleeper theme: tribalism. When Philip, Elizabeth, and Tuan have dinner with the dissident family, the father, who’s ...

The Americans' Hits New Heights In Season 5

... what happened specifically in history than the role we all play in it. It's possible to overread The Americans as a grand and sweeping geopolitical treatise, when its heroes are undermining the U. S. only ever so slightly — and when their mission, to win the Cold War, is a failure (if only a conditional one). Philip and Elizabeth have forestalled balancing their duties as Russian countrymen and as parents for so long that they're now bound to completely foul up at least one: The clock ticks with increasing urgency as they realize just how hard it is to control a daughter who doesn't trust them, and visibly avoid realizing their mission is sinking. MORE: Netflix Just Announced Premiere Dates for 12 Original Shows. Knowledge that the Cold War, obviously drawing to its close in 1984, will reopen in grand fashion in the 2010 s would have been some consolation for true believers, those who were convinced of the rightness of the national cause. And yet it'd likely mean little to Philip and Elizabeth, whose loyalties, rewardingly, are as convoluted as ever. Their "adoptive son" in this season’s spying scenario tells them that he finds it obvious and inevitable the U. S. will ...

The Americans’ Returns For Season 5

... (Frank Whaley), and daughter fight a lawsuit filed by the governor’s widow by trying to find who sabotaged the parachute. Also, Bull and his frequent trial collaborator, Liberty Davis (Dena Tyler), find themselves on opposing sides in court for the first time. “The Americans” (10 p.m., FX): With U. S.-Russia relations making real-world headlines, it seems like a good time to welcome secret Russian spies Philip and Elizabeth back into our lives. In the Season 5 premiere, they embark on an operation unlike any before. The job? Locate and dig up the corpse of the operative who died from exposure to the potential bioweapon and uncover something the KGB badly wants. Meanwhile, on the home front, Philip and Elizabeth struggle to maintain normalcy in their family, especially around their son, Henry. It doesn’t help that daughter Paige’s budding romance with Matthew, the son of their neighbor, FBI agent Stan Beeman, further complicates matters. “People Icons” (10 p.m., ABC): The covers of People magazine come to life in ...

The Americans Enters Its Endgame, Reluctantly Hopeful About Humanity

... US is anxious to knock it down once and for all, and desperation is oozing from both sides’ every pore. Everything good about The Americans is still good — but viewers who aren’t convinced yet might find season five revelatory. The Americans is ultimately about attempting to understand something else, something foreign: another country, another person, or another lifestyle. To get into somebody’s head and heart is the core of espionage, because then you can get them to do your dirty work for you. But that also necessarily means you’re pursuing as small a target as possible. Of the series’ two main characters, Elizabeth Jennings ( Keri Russell , who’d better win a damn Emmy before this show is over) has taken most readily to the idea of going stealth on others’ emotional radar. Whenever she attempts to relate more openly and honestly, especially with her daughter, she mostly comes off as a major bummer. Elizabeth has pretended to be herself for so long that she’s not entirely sure who “herself” is. #Marriage Goals. But the strain of lying to himself completely consumes Philip Jennings ( Matthew Rhys , who’d better ...