Who's watching 'The Americans' on FX?

[CurtEastPoint]

I am kinda hooked on it.

[dsc]

1. Great show

Matthew Rhys has pulled of something very rare, last done by Michael C Hall, playing two totally different characters back to back utterly convincingly. Plus the writing is terrific.

[CurtEastPoint]

2. Plus it is based on fact (sort of)

and sheds light on the goings-on with the KGB and Reagan's Star Wars plans.

[dsc]

3. It really is great

FX has truly original shows no doubt about it.

[bananas]

4. Yeah - it'll be interesting where they take it.

So much screwy stuff was going on back then.
The show is really well done - good acting, music, lots of suspense.

[madfloridian]

5. Me. I like it.

Can't imagine living that way, but it's fascinating on screen.

[SoCalDem]

6. Watching it, but not hooked yet..

Those types of shows run off the rails pretty easily. They have "real events" constraining them, and too much killing will start to ring quite false, and sour the whole thing.

[davidpdx]

7. Yes, that is true. Hopefully the ratings will stay up

I've gotten attached to programs in the past only to have them cancelled. I have a personal grudge against the head of CBS's Television division for canceling a show a about 8 years ago. I was that pissed.

[davidpdx]

8. I'm watching it as well

Here is the current schedule according to Episode Guide's website, it looks like they have 13 scheduled for season 1:

1 1-01 30/Jan/13 Pilot (97 min)
2 1-02 06/Feb/13 The Clock
3 1-03 13/Feb/13 Gregory
4 1-04 20/Feb/13 In Control
5 1-05 27/Feb/13 COMINT
6 1-06 06/Mar/13 Trust Me
7 1-07 13/Mar/13 Duty and Honor
8 1-08 20/Mar/13 Mutually Assured Destruction
9 1-09 03/Apr/13 Safe House
10 1-10 10/Apr/13 Only You
11 1-11 17/Apr/13 TBA
12 1-12 24/Apr/13 TBA
13 1-13 01/May/13 TBA

[Baclava]

9. yep, I'm hooked too - - the last couple of shows have been crazy good

It gets better every week...lots of shit hitting the fan on the current episode

they are pretty pissed at what the boss lady did to them.....I had no idea what the hell was going on, and I mean that in a good way!

[dsc]

10. the second half of last night's episode was fantastic

It had to be the Russians doing the torture in the first half but the original part was the second half. Where they will take this after the horrible mistake the Russians did who knows. But I can't wait to find out.

[Baclava]

11. nice car crash into the tree too - I was like wtf???

lots of plots dips and twists - I love this kinda stuff

[dsc]

12. they had to explain their condition to their kids

and that was the best way they could come up with.

[CurtEastPoint]

13. I JUMPED out of my chair when the bag went over his head

and I was just on edge till I saw boss lady. Wow! Were they pissed!

[davidpdx]

14. It certainly was

I was completely taken when the boss walked out from around the corner. When Elizabeth started thrashing on her I was laughing. The car crash was a nice touch. I wonder how long it will take Phillip to get over her betraying him.

[davidpdx]

15. Good news.........

This is a couple of weeks old, but I hadn't seen it until just now.

FX orders second season of 'The Americans'

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/02/21/fx-orders-second-season-of-the-americans/

The debut had 5.11 million viewers.

This season will have 13 episodes and will end on May 1st.

Next season will be 13 episodes with the start date TBA.

[Baclava]

16. Excellent news! thanks

everybody's screwing everybody

now it's getting good!

[Jenoch]

17. The question I have that was inspired

by this show is, were there really 'sleeper agents' like the couple depicted in this program? Somehow I doubt if my question can be answered.

[johnsolaris]

18. does this help ?

Hi,

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/anna-chapman-russian-sleeper-agents-arrested-awarded-kremlin-top-medal-article-1.190482

There have been stories & rumors for years about what both sides were doing. The USSR did recruit the Walker family & they spied for them for years & gave away a lot of secrets for money. There was also another American that was in the CIA & was recruited by the Soviets & he gave many secrets away for money. his name was Robert Hanssen. Both of these cases are Public knowledge & you should be able to find them on the web.

[Jenoch]

19. I am familiar with both of those cases of spying.

I was referring to 'sleeper agents' in which a Soviet 'mole' is sent to the U.S. and attempts to live as a U.S. citizen (similar to this TV program).

[Little Star]

20. Do you not watch NCIS-LA?

[Jenoch]

22. Nope.

I've never seen it or the original NICS. I'm choosy about which television shows I decided to watch. I'm OCB enough so that if I enjoy the program, I'll likely make an effort to watch it and I really don't need any more 'appointment' TV. I basically restrict myself to one or fewer programs per night. I seem to be watching more cable produced original programming rather than the standard network TV stuff. The only three current episodic TV I currently watch are The Americans and Justified on FX and The Good Wife on CBS.

[Little Star]

24. I was just joshing with ya. They've had a lot of shows about

soviet sleeper agents lately.

[Jenoch]

25. Those Soviet sleeper agents

must be really old by now.

[Little Star]

26. Yeah, well NCIS-LA says they left a lot of

nuclear war head stuff hidden all over the USA! LOL

[Jenoch]

23. I came back and read the story

in the NY Daily News. I found it interesting that the Russian moles spent so much time living the good American suburban life that they never did get around to doing any real spying.

[Little Star]

21. It's a good show.