re: The Americans season 4 thread

he gave em

Nina had to get got

Elizabeth going soft is a paradigm shift, but she's done that before and then got hard again. Phillip has always been soft

the evolution of their relationship has kind of taken away a major layer of drama. lest we forget earlier in the series there was constant conflict about what their relationship was. now it's kind of just "we're a real married couple" without anymore drama

i think martha gets killed and beamon can convince the unit to investigate. the officer who took her on the date will likely be on board (both b/c of her admission and b/c he likes her and is the 2nd agent to die in a short period of time with spying going on around the unit)

next year HAS to be the end of the show. too many nooses are tightening around phillip and liz

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next year HAS to be the end of the show. too many nooses are tightening around phillip and liz

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i read somewhere that it's a 3 act show, and they are approaching the end of act 2. i imagine the next big death will signal the end of the act. next season will probably be the end, but the makers have said it's either going 5 or 6 seasons, so there may be 2 more.

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Perhaps they wrap it into leading to the fall of the soviet union?

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Damn, and here I was thinking it was just to tie up the stealth guy's story line and illustrate who Philip and Elizabeth are really working for.

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Also kinda bogus that a 2 day course of antibiotics kills a super bacteria

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Stupid glanders.

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Elizabeth going soft is a paradigm shift, but she's done that before and then got hard again. Phillip has always been soft

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I never saw it as Phillip was soft. I see him as more of a pragmatist. He grew up in the USSR in BFE. Working for the KGB is pretty prestigious job and a way out of his home town. That's the way to move up in that society. If he was born in the US he'd probably be a lawyer or on Wall Street or something. He does some awful stuff and feels guilty about some times but it's his job. He'd defect or as we see now would run because it is better for him and his family. I think he liked having the kids more. He's more in it for himself for lack of a better term than the cause.

Elizabeth is a true believer. She is dedicated to the cause of communism. She took the job with the KGB because it was her duty. She'd probably be a hard core lefty if she was born somewhere else. She thinks they are right and does the terrible stuff because she really thinks it "makes the world a better place" that old lady was the only time she really felt guilty. I suspect she just had the kids because it was part of the job and struggled with the idea that the kids were part of the mission and her maternal instincts. That's why she was ok with Paige going into the program at first and Phillip was against it.

The kids are a reflection of them. Paige is like Liz, i saw her taking to religion the same way Liz is devoted to the "cause". Henry is more like Phillip, just a dude trying to live his life.

I think he's going to peace together who they are because of the son

Arkady's worried. He stuck his neck out for Nina. This could bite him in the arse, especially when Oleg turns.

Well this is good.

Next week looks intense.

I just don't see it ending well for Martha.