The Americans or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Commies

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  1. NP13

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    that makes me happy
     
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  2. JC

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    So excited...best show on TV.
     
  3. Boyd Crowder

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    It's The Americans day, guys.

    :lovelove: :yousoright: :lovelove:
     
  4. Fran Tarkenton

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    this is going to be fun

    best show on television
     
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  6. NP13

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    LET'S GO
     
  7. Lorne Malvo

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    Really liked tonight's episode. Ending was awesome.
     
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  8. laxjoe

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    i'm all in guys. that was a great first ep
     
  9. Fran Tarkenton

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    Can't get enough of this show.

    Part of me wishes they'd do a season dump on netflix. Cant handle the suspense of waiting.
     
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    so what's up with the pastor
     
  11. laxjoe

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    what do you mean?
     
  12. MODEVIL

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    well at the end of last season it was said here that it would be a jump the shark moment if he were a commie. Now he is trying to get information from Paige? Whole thing seems weird.
     
  13. JC

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    I can't wait until Phillip snaps Pastor Tim's neck.
     
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    Did you watch the season preview at the end of the episode?

    The fbi listens to a recording of Paige and the pastor talking about her parents being spies. He isn't what he seems.
     
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    no DVR cut off
     
  16. tjosu

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    Thanks for spoils ring that as I intentionally did not watch that preview. Good form, fam
     
  17. JC

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    This show is just incredible

    Tonight was once again great
     
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    Great episode. First time I've felt something for Nina as a person
     
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    home run episode
     
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    Interested to see how they take care of Pastor Tim, without Paige getting suspicious
     
  21. MODEVIL

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    Paige saved Pastor Tim by admitting she told him
     
  22. Truman

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    Im not sure if she saved him as much as just making it a lot more difficult for her parents to eliminate him. It's not like they can just ask him not to tell anyone.

    Im guessing they find a way to blackmail him into secrecy, but I doubt even that is a secure enough solution.
     
  23. clemsontyger04

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    Holy shit what an episode.
     
  24. Sam Elliott

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    Ready for Pastor Tim to get the airport security guard on the bus treatment.
     
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  25. laxjoe

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    just got to the "Tainted Love" scene. God, I love this shows use of music
     
  26. laxjoe

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    damn. what a great episode.
     
  27. Taques

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    "tim and alice are going to be a big part of our lives for a long time"

    god damnit every episode where pastor tim isnt dead is the worst episode
     
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    Solid episode, but next week looks :ohshit:
     
  29. Fran Tarkenton

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    Ive been wanting to kill Martha and Pastor Tim for too long now, almost as long as Ive been wanting a Sandra and Elizabeth hookup.
     
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    You only get one. What do you chose?
     
  31. Fran Tarkenton

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    Elizabeth, b/c I know - and Paige knows - that she gives oral before sex
     
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    fuck pastor tim. can't wait for that little shit to get got
     
  33. bucs

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    and his whore wife
     
  34. Gunners

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    Sandra is great but Elizabeth by a mile.
     
  35. laxjoe

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    Roommate is a season behind right now so I'm watching season 3 again. Just watched the suitcase scene/ep.
     
  36. Truman

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    :blech:
     
  37. NP13

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    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
     
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  38. Taques

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    holy shit that ending
     
  39. Taques

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    after 58 minutes i was thinking that we got an episode where literally nothing happened
     
  40. Boyd Crowder

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    I kinda figured it was gonna happen when they started walking her down the hallway. But the sudden brutality of it had me like

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    RIP Nina :tebow:
     
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    Unless this somehow sets off Oleg it kind of makes me wonder what the point of tracking her for the last 2 seasons has been if she wasn't ever going to return to any of the major plot lines :idk:
     
  42. Boyd Crowder

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    This isn't The Walking Dead. The writers know what they are doing, and I trust them. They pay such meticulous attention to every single detail in this show, it is OCD-like. From making sure that songs that are being played fit the month, to the uniforms that a bus driver would be wearing from then, even a TV show episode being shown in the background fits the exact day and time they are portraying. These guys have put their work in. They won't let us down with this storyline.
     
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  43. Lorne Malvo

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    Honestly, I'm happy she's dead. I don't think her story was a necessary one to tell in that way anymore. She'll hang over the show now but in a good way. She just wasn't connected with the current characters directly, and hadn't been for a while.

    That said, brutal way to do it. Damn.
     
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  44. Taques

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    it works for me because imo ninas story arc ended with her coming to peace with her past
     
  45. clemsontyger04

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    Good way to put it. I have to give the show props they had you thinking two other characters might die and that Oleg was saving Nina. Then bam its over.

    Also I was fascinated how cold the officers and the verdict reader were when they shot her. Zero emotion.
     
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  46. laxjoe

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    Just watched. I even knew it was coming from a couple of things I had seen on Twitter, and the suddenness of it still got a "Holy shit!" out of me.
     
  47. Boyd Crowder

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    I listen to Slate's The Americans podcast (which I highly recommend) that has the two show creators and writers along with another guest that talk about each week's episode. They explained that the Soviets actually used that practice of reading a person's sentence and immediately following it with the execution because they thought it was more humane to do that. Which I guess kind of makes sense. Rather than have the person have to sit on death row and ponder what their last days will be like, a quick ending without any time to think about the repercussions in some weird way does seem more humane.
     
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    Just caught up. Gat damn.
     
  49. Open Carry

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  50. Taques

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    60 minutes of nothin'