"The Americans" Ep 8
This is OT you soulless son of a bitch.
Have always found that tag to be redundant.
Any discussion of the New Jersey Americans, one of the eleven original franchises in the American Basketball Association and the original name of the NBA franchise now known as the Brooklyn Nets, might have to be considered OT.
I need a theory on the paint brush.
She didn't want to admit it to herself, but she really cared for that woman, and respected her for dealing with the pain (by refusing morphine so she could feel something) and continuing to paint. She loved it and believed in it (painting), (like Elizabeth's beliefs and loyalty) so she used the paint brush as a sign of respect. Like, this is how the lady would like to go.
I haven't watched a single episode...
catch me up to speed
I think the show kind of lost its shine the past couple seasons, but I've been home with a new kid this week and got to watch all of this season to date. I think the show is back to its old self.
I don't want too give much away, but let's just say we are reaching the crescendo you knew this would eventually, and all the plot points are intersecting in a great way: twilight of the USSR with rival reformer and hardliner factions duking it out; pressure to choose between family and loyalty to country (but a country that's nothing like what the main characters remember); spies living next to an FBI counterintelligence officer eventually generate suspicions; the decades of murdering people and increasingly risky operations catching up with them, now with a second generation of spy in the mix.
This week's episode just finished. Like, a minute ago.
Read a title, man, read a title.
I thought Philip's confession put him on Elizabeth's hit list. But that painting? drawing? seemed to have some effect on her, and she couldn't kill that nosy kid - thought for sure he was dead - or the Russian negotiator. And then she spilled the beans to Philip. Wow.
And FBI guy is following up on his hunch. Maybe smoking is really going to kill Elizabeth.
They hammered in the smoking thing like four times. My wife keeps talking about how they used to catch spies because they smoked the wrong cigarettes.
Elizabeth's belated awakening that maybe Philip has a point about asking questions to her superiors. It's definitely a game-changer for where the plot can go now, and looking ahead to a climax of a Philip vs. Elizabeth showdown doesn't seem so definite anymore.