One of television’s finest dramas, The Americans, returns tonight on FX for its second season and almost immediately answers a nagging question that haunts all ambitious, claustrophobic thrillers: Can this series get even better or will it go off the rails as the story unspools? Not only does...
I was a 10 year old, when "The Americans" screened in Australia - I watched every single episode, and was fascinated by the events that caused nation to fight against nation. I waited for re-runs of the series for years, and it never happened - it seemed all my friends in Australia ...
There has been a lot of focus on Phillip this series, so this is shift in focus keeps things interesting. Also the difficult situation Paige is in hangs above everything and the writers do a good job of making you feel that this is possibly going to rear its head quite soon.One scene...
The Americans: Created by Joseph Weisberg. With Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Keidrich Sellati, Holly Taylor. At the height of the Cold War, married KGB spies pose as Americans in Washington, D.C.
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Book Review: Ararat in America October 22, 2024Michael Bobelian1 Ararat in America: Armenian American Culture and Politics in the Twentieth Century By Ben Alexander Published by I. B.Tauris in 2023 264 pages It’s surprising how little most Armenian Americans know about their recent past.[…]...
Simmons, and currently available (to Americans, anyway) on Hulu. It’s the kind of movie we’ve seen before, but with so many interesting twists on the concept that it always feels fresh. In addition to pointing out what makes the movie work, we’ve got a bunch of nerdy questions ...
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5) The Americans (FX) I’m not a big fan of series built around people who murder others (innocents or otherwise). There is something perverse about positioning killers as characters the audience should support and come to care about. (The exception is Showtime’s Dexter, about a man with...