• When Claudia justifies her manipulation of Elizabeth by saying, “I’ve been protecting you,” it echoes Elizabeth’s own manipulation of Paige, who she in turn has “protected” from the truth. Full-on regret presents a tougher road back, because she’ll have to take responsibility for what she’s done. There is no Audience Score because there are not enough user ratings at this time. Philip, meanwhile, has settled into running the newly expanded travel agency - until an unexpected visitor makes a disquieting request. The meeting, she said, had been cancelled so she needs that paperwork back.
She had Rafifi like putty in her hands, doing her bidding and taking a box straight into the summit. But Elizabeth didn't choose her mark as carefully as she could have because Rafifi is an intelligent and extraordinary young man. I also keep going back to the moment in that ferocious opening scene when Philip insists that he only told Oleg what Elizabeth was up to because he wanted her to “think ... like a human being.” He might as well have slapped her; maybe she would have preferred it.
And maybe can’t ever forgive him.
But, Elizabeth, keep quite. When Glenn fails horrifically in assisting her suicide, it’s Elizabeth who’s uniquely suited to get the job done.
She absorbs this with a lot of heavy silence. So when Brand’s name popped up on “The Summit” — his only credited script for this final season, though, of course, he was in the writers’ room and helped plot out the season — I had high hopes the episode would be a special one. New episodes of The Americans season 6 usually air every Wednesday on FX. After all these years serving your country, don't throw it all away now. Her humanity accounts for her willingness to sacrifice her body and soul — and the bodies and souls of others, too — to pursue her ideals. The episode begins and ends with Philip on the family sofa, first lost in thought mere seconds after the conclusion of last week, and then watching “The Garage,” which he rented/checked out in a previous scene in the episode. November 6, 2020, 3:48 pm, by
I’m trying to be optimistic, but I’m not sure how smart that is. The deeper we get into the season, the more clear it is that the real struggles are often within these giant bureaucracies or within the relationships that are their microcosms. Aderholt is the one I’d put money on to be killed, and if Renee isn’t dirty, she jumps to the top of the list. An all-virtual ceremony can only rock so hard. She knows how ugly it can be to kill another person.
Remember what I wrote years ago: Stan Beeman can’t have nice things. Many good lives would be trashed in the meantime all in the name of... keeping Gorbachev out of office. WHAT IF we got so many apparent red herrings about her being a sleeper agent that we’ve looped all the way back around to thinking she’s harmless, only for her to indeed be a sleeper agent meant to make sure that Stan doesn’t do exactly what Stan is now doing? “Maybe he’ll give you absolution.” But we know there’s more here. This late in its run, it’s clear that The Americans is ending with a story that asks if Philip and Elizabeth’s marriage can be saved, above all else, and only then does it ask if Stan will catch on to them.
Later, he summons her back upstairs and asks her to take one of Erica’s paintings. This week, it was Elizabeth’s turn to have her entire world turned upside down with Philip’s revelation off the top and Claudia’s admissions about overthrowing Gorbachev for trying to change things rather than continue the numbskull status quo. When she listens to the recording of Nestrenko, she is shocked: He’s not doing anything to undermine the U.S.S.R., just engaging in above board negotiating to reduce nuclear proliferation.
What’s amazing about this seismic shift is that Stan is oh so close to a hunch becoming a legitimate evidentially-backed accusation about his neighbors, but by the time he actually gets to his conclusion, they may both have recognized the inherent fallacy of the cause they’ve wasted their lives defending.
This was an astounding installment and one in which Renee discovered she had an interview at the FBI.
I’m ready for them to show me the end to their story, and I’m convinced it’s going to be memorable, devastating, and lasting in its impact and emotional power. Already a subscriber?
It’s also possible Stan shows some level of compassion for them when he sees it for himself. The most probable outcome is she will take one side in the penultimate episode next week, but that won’t necessarily be the last twist in her activity. It just started streaming on Netflix. Philip and Elizabeth are navigating a split within the Soviet Union, in the most obvious form of this, but even Stan is divided between his growing certainty that Philip and Elizabeth are the spies he’s been looking for and his desire to keep them as his friends. You meet him. • Great little scene with Elizabeth quietly determining whether to keep a painting that means so much to her or destroy a piece of incriminating evidence. You're wearing a cyanide pill around your neck. Sam Amico For the second time, she can’t bring herself to kill. Sign up today to get a $1000 risk-free bet.
This was an astounding installment and one in which Renee discovered she had an interview at the FBI.
All he can say is “she smoked like a chimney.” That’s enough to keep the ember of Stan’s suspicion burning hot. Elizabeth's Mrs. Robinson routine on Jackson is so elegantly scripted on her part, from the casual "oops" of the underwear on the couch to a conversational path that leads right to the bed.