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The Americans on Fx

They're toast and it will end badly. They have to pull the kid out of the Yankee boarding school, and I don't see that happening with any degree of success. Epilogue will be things winding down, Stan sitting at his desk at work while Walking Dead chick walks by, maybe gives him a comforting shoulder rub and smile, then disappears to secretly take pictures of important files.
 
From a writing perspective, I agree this ending seems rushed; but I also think things could end abruptly for spies.

Couldn't believe they trotted out the "Paige demands honesty" scene AGAIN. Ugh.
 
Ugh. Seems like they needed two hours and that still wouldn't have been enough.
 
Didn't hate it. Didn't love it. I'm all for vague conclusions that are open to interpretation, but closure is also a good thing, even if only partially.
 
I like how Philip was like hey Stan thanks for letting us go so as a parting gift here’s a mindfuck your girlfriend may be one of us, I’m not sure enjoy.
 
Didn't like the line by Stan about killing Philip and Elizabeth back at FBI headquarters. Felt like they stuck it in to have something for the teasers, and it's not like the character needed to say it to stay true to form. Also, would have liked to know how/why Arkady Ivanovich was the one to meet the Jennings.

Pretty minor gripes though. Overall, I thought it was well done.
 
really enjoyed...whole series was excellent except I do wish that Pastor Tim and died a horrible death of the hands of a russian spy (just kidding....kind of...not reallly).

The scene where they are burying their passports and taking off their rings...wow. And Stan really is the nicest guy in the world.
 
Nobody really got a happy ending here, huh. Mayyyyyybe P+E, but you have to squint even for that to make sense.
 
RedSoxFaithful said:
You don't think we got closure?
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You do? Everything was open-ended for every character, with the possible exception of Oleg, since he's pretty much guaranteed not going anywhere.

RedSoxFaithful said:
Nobody really got a happy ending here, huh. Mayyyyyybe P+E, but you have to squint even for that to make sense.
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Renee might've gotten a happy ending.
 
DeacinBama said:
Didn't like the line by Stan about killing Philip and Elizabeth back at FBI headquarters. Felt like they stuck it in to have something for the teasers, and it's not like the character needed to say it to stay true to form. Also, would have liked to know how/why Arkady Ivanovich was the one to meet the Jennings.

Pretty minor gripes though. Overall, I thought it was well done.
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I read that as Stan acting to say something for Aderholt's benefit.
 
TBDeac said:
I read that as Stan acting to say something for Aderholt's benefit.
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Sure, it just wasn't necessary and ultimately led nowhere. Aderholt didn't suspect him of anything, and it's not like Stan's reaction would have been weird had he not said it. Just seemed extraneous and strange.
 
If you had told me it would end like that, I would've been mad, but somehow they pulled it off. Only way that could've improved it going that route would be to have P&E take bullets to the back of their heads while they're looking out at the end. There was a shot where it looked like their driver was no longer in the car and I thought for sure that was going to happen, but nope. But the ambiguity worked. Paige was annoying right to the end. Her hitting the vodka is a precursor to her sucking dick for crack in 6 months. Poor Stan got stuck with the idea that his GF might be a plant and he has to pay for the commie kid's private schooling on top of that.

Oleg getting busted was kind of lame, honestly. What are they going to convict him of? He wasn't spying on any US stuff. He was spying on his own country. What a big shitburger for he and his family though.

Good use of Dire Straits and U2 near the end, though they could've use U2 with the same great effect without chopping it up and extending it. Those are 2 of my favorite songs from that decade. Brothers In Arms was also used years ago in Miami Vice in a scene that I still remember more than 30 years later.

 
I thought using Brothers in Arms was risky because it was used in the perfect ending to a perfect episode of television with the season 2 finale of The West Wing. Any time that's used my mind immediately goes to "Two Cathedrals".

As to this show, I really dug it. I was rather surprised at how bloodlessly it ended. You knew from episode 1 it was going to end poorly and I'd say, all told, it was about as good as they could have hoped for. I was ok with not everything being tied up neatly with a bow, that's not how their life is. I halfway expected it was going to end with them looking at the newly opened McDonald's in Red Square, but that was a few years yet to come.
 
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