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Cornballer

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Oct 25, 2017
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Is there a season five recap? I'm having a hard time remembering what happened.
I haven't seen one in video form. Best bet is the episode summaries on Wikipedia:
Finale Summary said:
Shortly after the Jennings and Tuan arrive, the Morozovs return home and find Pasha critical but alive. As a result, Evgheniya agrees to take him back to Moscow, without her husband. In a post-mortem analysis, Tuan criticizes the Jennings for their "petty bourgeois" concerns, and Elizabeth tells Tuan that he'll fail without a partner. Gennadi passes an FBI polygraph test. Renee moves in with Stan due to flooding in her apartment and then talks him out of leaving counterintelligence. In Moscow, Martha's language instructor, after consultation with Gabriel, tells her that she will be allowed to adopt a young orphan named Olya. Philip and Elizabeth make their final decision to return home to the USSR with their children, who have not been told. Henry and Chris are admitted to the boarding school, but Philip tells Henry that he can't go without explaining why. Paige continues fight training with Elizabeth. Philip tells Kimmy that he may take a job overseas. However, in listening to the tape of Kimmy's father Isaac, Philip learns that Isaac is being promoted to head of the CIA's Soviet division. Both Philip and Elizabeth agree that they will have to stay in the U.S. to continue the Kimmy operation.
 

Barajas_201

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Oct 25, 2017
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torontoml

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Oct 25, 2017
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Can't wait, got the series set to record since I likely be working most weeks, but i'll watch it as soon as I get home Wednesday.
 

Rehynn

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Feb 14, 2018
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So ready. Been with the show since the pilot and it has become my favorite thing on TV.

Also, back in January I ran into Richard Thomas, AKA Agent Gaad, at the Sackler Gallery in DC. He was super nice and said he's really excited to see how the the story ends.
 

kilg0re

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Oct 25, 2017
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So excited for this. Been watching since the beginning. Up there with my favorite shows off all time.

I was pretty bummed by the S5 finale. I wanted the final season to take place all in Russia. I know that would've caused all sorts of story issues, but still.

I have faith they'll end it on a strong note though.

Should be interesting to see what the
time jump
does. Kinda mad I found out about it. No other spoilers for me. Mild or not. I was scanning some headliner and that shit was there.

Hoping there's more mail robot.
 

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Oct 25, 2017
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So excited for this. Been watching since the beginning. Up there with my favorite shows off all time.

I was pretty bummed by the S5 finale. I wanted the final season to take place all in Russia. I know that would've caused all sorts of story issues, but still.

I have faith they'll end it on a strong note though.

Should be interesting to see what the
time jump
does. Kinda mad I found out about it. No other spoilers for me. Mild or not. I was scanning some headliner and that shit was there.

Hoping there's more mail robot.
I mean the spoiler there was kind of obvious once they announced the final season. No way they make a series like this and miss *that* event. Just no way.
 

Spiderz

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Oct 25, 2017
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The amount of funky wigs was a little low for my liking last season. Gotta get more of them for for the least season.
 

Rehynn

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Feb 14, 2018
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Oh, OK. I generally dislike time jumps, so I'm not really looking forward to seeing one (or two) happen in this season, but then again, it's the Americans, the writers have handled everything really well so far.
 
Oct 25, 2017
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I only sometimes dislike time jumps in finale (episodes) because they can be jarring. Shows like Halt and Catch Fire pull them off really well though.
 

luca

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Oct 25, 2017
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Unfortunately I can't finish the five seasons in time for this, since I also gotta get through a few other shows, but it'll be one I'll enjoy when everything's done and over with. And I'm loving it so far (only on the first season).
 
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Variety review
The show's meticulous construction of ambiguous choices is one of the finest achievements in recent television history. Sometimes precise and measured storytelling can be dry and arid, or lacking in passion. But showrunners Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields have made the examination of difficult moral options, and the often good intentions of complicated people, collide in believable and bittersweet ways for six seasons.
NY Times review
That "The Americans" makes you care about the answer without excusing the characters is its great accomplishment. It doesn't sugarcoat that Elizabeth and Philip are in an ugly line of work and do unforgivable things. They kill civilians, lie to their kids, ruin lives.

But unlike other bad-guy cable protagonists, they do it out of principle, however misguided. Elizabeth believes passionately in socialism. Philip's politics are shakier, his loyalties more personal.
 
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Hollywood Reporter review
The hardest thing in all of television is making a great series season after season. And as The Americans begins its sixth and final season, the first three episodes sent by FX to critics elicited that kind of admiration, that confidence that, at least in the early going, the enormous weight of expectations hadn't crippled the show but given it a certain exhilaration as it began its end game.
THR: 'The Americans' Team Teases "Manic" Series Finale
 

kevin1025

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Oct 25, 2017
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I mean the spoiler there was kind of obvious once they announced the final season. No way they make a series like this and miss *that* event. Just no way.

They jumped nine or ten months near the end of season four I think it was, could happen again and end on that. It'd be a fitting image.
 

Philippo

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Are we really here?
Wow.
It feels like an eternity passed, both for us and for them.
I watched a promo and was speechless at how much Paige has grown through the years, both physically and mentally (and yeah of course she became cute as hell).

I don't think i'm ready, things won't end well at all, and i'm too attached to these characters.

I've never joined AmericansGAF, hope i'll be able to follow this last season with you guys, but i don't even know if i'll get to watch this simultaneously.
 

Kahoots

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Feb 15, 2018
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What would be a fitting ending?

Philip sacrifices himself to capture by the Americans to keep Paige in America and from becoming a spy? Elizabeth's cover is blown but makes it home with Mathew who is unimpressed, unforgiving and spiteful regarding his new home and nationality?
 

RatskyWatsky

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Oct 25, 2017
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What would be a fitting ending?

Philip sacrifices himself to capture by the Americans to keep Paige in America and from becoming a spy? Elizabeth's cover is blown but makes it home with Mathew who is unimpressed, unforgiving and spiteful regarding his new home and nationality?

Whatever it is, I feel like it needs a heaping dose of bitter on top of any possible sweetness. A 'happy' ending would probably ring false to me, but I'm also open to having my mind changed.


ohhh my god
 
Oct 25, 2017
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i'm expecting devastation. something awful like paige being caught or being killed while the parents are on the run.
 

Funky Papa

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Oct 28, 2017
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I don't know if they are ever going to top Nina's execution, but I already feel a knot in my stomach anyway.

The Americans do meaningful, awful deaths like few other shows. Heck, even some of the quieter scenes can be devastating in its own right.
 

Rehynn

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Feb 14, 2018
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I don't know if they are ever going to top Nina's execution, but I already feel a knot in my stomach anyway.

The Americans do meaningful, awful deaths like few other shows. Heck, even some of the quieter scenes can be devastating in its own right.

When that guy choked that poor Nicaraguan girl to death and Elizabeth just watched in silence.
Also, when she made that old lady overdose on pills. "That's what evil people tell themselves when they do evil things" is one of the heaviest lines of the show.