Re: The Americans - Season 2 returns in the US
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2014 12:09 am
Very good start with some shocking scenes emphasising the characters and the situation they're in. Maybe the start of a long term plot as well.
On the renewal front, a formal third-season renewal of The Americans is expected soon, he said. “We look forward to it being on our schedule for quite some time,” he said, later adding that he was “confident in the [show's] long-term prospect.” While the series’ live numbers may have dipped, it has been a DVR growth story. The Americans‘ DVR numbers are “unlike anything I have ever seen,” Landgraf said. “Live viewing is essentially just 20% of whole.”
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what has been the best season on TV so far this year.
FX’s period spy drama “The Americans” went to a new level this season, going from a very good show to one of the very best on television
Though The Americans’ first season was hugely successful creatively and critically, the second season started attracting the kinds of raves that are usually reserved for the upper echelon of TV dramas.
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Throughout its stellar first two seasons, FX’s Cold War spy drama “The Americans” has been incredibly adept at creating tension. Whether using spy-craft action set-pieces or more human conflicts among characters, “The Americans” is often an edge-of-your-seat series. With that said, the early episodes of Season 3 ratchet the tension up another level.
The juxtaposition of domestic banality with covert, often erotic peril has never been more unsettling.
The Americans returns for a third season packed with tension, raw-nerve melodrama and enough levels of ambiguity, moral and psychological, to satisfy the most gluttonous appetite for the stuff. With, in short, all that has distinguished this series from its beginning.
This might be a philosophical season of The Americans, but like any good countercultural force, it still gets its thrills from sex and violence. B+