The Americans Fanblog

Behind the scenes pictures of the eerie greenhouse scene from Tuesday’s episode.. From Joel Fields on Twitter.

The season 5 premiere airs tonight at 10, don’t miss it!

"His parents are getting more involved with his life but not vice versa. So his parents are starting to find out more about him and how he's been doing at school, out of school, just in general," Sellati told THR. "No more just playing on the computer for him, either. He's starting to grow up."

Costume designer Katie Irish previews some of the new fashion styles you may spot in this season of The Americans here.

Jacob reflects on Joe’s past as a CIA officer: “To me, I always come back to the experience you had of having to lie to your friends. Joe has this very close group of friends he’s had since early childhood, and I think it was sort of a life-changing experience for you to have to deceive them. And I have to say, you have the most clueless group of friends! Not one of them had a passing thought that Joe was in the CIA. But just the corrosive effect of having to do that, as a way to live.”

The full panel discussion is available to watch here.

It’s that bittersweet time of the year again.. The season finale for The Americans airs tonight! Here’s the promo for ‘Persona Non Grata’.

Episode 12 airs tonight! Are you ready?

FX has just officially announced their renewal of The Americans for season five and six. Season six will be the final season. Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg feel that this allows them to give the story the ending it deserves. A quote from Joe: "We have a pretty good sense [of the ending]. I would say we got it down to about four different endings. So we’re pretty well honed in on a zone we’re going to go to, but we haven’t decided for sure. And the way that we work, it could also all change. As it gets closer, we could come up with something totally different that would surprise me."

“I think it’s really lovely to see Elizabeth absorb some of [Young-Hee’s positive attitude]. She definitely has a wall that she puts up against that, but you can see her hunger for it, and I think it’s really lovely and heartbreaking, also, to watch. [Young-Hee] shows a picture of a woman going to a foreign place and making a good, honest life for herself, and that’s the life Elizabeth has not chosen to lead.” - From this interview with Ruthie Ann Miles, the actress who plays Young-Hee.

“Tonight’s episode directed by this guy! :-) #TheAmericans” - Joel Fields (@joel_fields) on Twitter.

Phew, what an episode. Can you breathe again? Maybe it’s time to reflect and listen to the podcast. This week’s guest is Alison Wright. I mean, of course. Who else?

Wow, it’s episode seven already? Here’s the promo for tonight’s Americans episode, ‘Travel Agents’.

Here’s the podcast about Wednesday’s episode, with special guest Masha Gessen, the show’s Russian translator.

[W]hen she is walking out of that house, she has no idea where she’s going. She doesn’t know where she’s going to go past getting outside of the house onto the street. And I think we see that in the shot when, after she yells at Gabriel, she turns around and then the panic sets in a bit more. “Where do I go now? What do I do now?” -Alison Wright in this interview over at the Daily Beast.

Here’s the promo for tonight’s episode, ‘The Rat’.