Official The Americans Season 3 Thread

[Dillah810]

Filthy Phil gettin his Steph Curry on

 

[mson]

Nina working this broad. Never open up to your cell mate.

 

[mson]

How could I forget

Again with the Jesus

 

[Dillah810]

Just when you think Simpin Stan can't get no lower, the muthafukka pulls put a shovel....

"You might have a conscience, but a conscience can be dangerous"

The old man is giving Filthy Phil the green light to get that jailbait.

 

[mson]

That 80's music got me feeling some type of way

 

[all3rd]

Julia Garner is the youngest 21 year old ever. Phil has no shame.

 

[KalKal]

That 80's music got me feeling some type of way

After the pilot episode, I expected that this show would have more 80's music. They should be running through the 1982 Billboard charts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1982

 

[AkaDemiK]

Julia Garner is the youngest 21 year old ever. Phil has no shame.

fukk that.....eat phil...EAT

 

[Diunx]

The Philth about to feast on some fine high school p*ssy

 

[PlayerNinety_Nine]

Phil on that


15 will get you 20, Phillip

Paige already in the family business, and they ain't een know it.

First time they've really gone in on the music from what I recall too. Definitely way more subdued with the overall 80's vibe than Halt And Catch Fire was.

 

[re'up]

I think 'The Americans' is the darkest show on tv, why I like it so much….No one is clean, or innocent, and it shows the manipulations and ulterior motives of everyone, and how we all can live duplicitous lives, and hurt people others care about to protect the ones WE care about. The whole show can work as a metaphor about nothing being as it seems, and there is very little real 'good' in the world, just people with their various and conflicting objectives, and ways to accomplish them. There is more then a hint of a spiral to Phil, he seems like he is getting to the end of this shyt…esp. towards the end, dude is seducing or allowing himself to be seduced by a 15 year old…he's seeing Paige all over that one…Very dark and ominous last scene. Stan still out there looking crazy, concerning his wife and turning down Shelia/Callie Thorne…..thats just inexcusable.

 

[young3000]

Phil doesn't need to go down that road with the young gal

former kgb agent got Stan going crazy. women is Stan's downfall...his wife, Nina, and now this woman

 

[Hades]

I think 'The Americans' is the darkest show on tv, why I like it so much….No one is clean, or innocent, and it shows the manipulations and ulterior motives of everyone, and how we all can live duplicitous lives, and hurt people others care about to protect the ones WE care about. The whole show can work as a metaphor about nothing being as it seems, and there is very little real 'good' in the world, just people with their various and conflicting objectives, and ways to accomplish them. There is more then a hint of a spiral to Phil, he seems like he is getting to the end of this shyt…esp. towards the end, dude is seducing or allowing himself to be seduced by a 15 year old…he's seeing Paige all over that one…Very dark and ominous last scene. Stan still out there looking crazy, concerning his wife and turning down Shelia/Callie Thorne…..thats just inexcusable.

I didn't find the last scene to be ominous. Danger is always around these characters and anyone they come into contact with intrinsically. I thought it was tragically heart warming. Philip is wrestling with his wife wanting his daughter to follow in the steps of the family tradition, watching his baby girl grow up before his eyes, his lack of (or perceived lack of) connection with her and his relationship with his wife simultaneously. Add to that the swerve Paige pulled on them at dinner. With all that I just see a man who wanted a moment on honest peace and took it with a girl who resembles his daughter.

What made it even more dope to me is that he is about to put this girl to work in ways that his daughter would be if she enters into the fold. So you have a hardened spy who is a father to a young woman sharing a father daughter moment with someone who obviously had traumas and issues of her own. She was throwing that fire his way early with zero apprehension. He eschews her advances (Philip is a "nice guy" like that) and comforts her while taking some in return. It's beautiful in a terribly fleeting way because it will not last. I found the scene to be more telling and reflective than ominous.

 

[re'up]

I really like that interpretation…..ominous though in a sense of an escalation of all things, his daughter is at the crossroads, between the church, her mom, and whatever Phil wants….Phil, who is seducing an 18 year old, in order to enable her to betray her family, but nah really your analysis is on point too. Also, ominous as you said in 'this can't last'….

 

[KalKal]

First time they've really gone in on the music from what I recall too. Definitely way more subdued with the overall 80's vibe than Halt And Catch Fire was.

I want my 80's references to be more cliched and "on the nose". The better play "99 Luftballoons" when they get to 1983!