The Americans returns to FX for the season 4 premiere tonight and fans are ecstatic. And why shouldn’t they be? It’s an incredible show packed with drama, sex, intrigue, mystery, and everything else you’d want in a show about two Russian spies pretending to be American. It looks like tonight’s episode “Glanders” will start off with a bang. According to TV Guide we’ve got a few plots to keep a watch out on.
In the fourth season premiere, Philip and Elizabeth face the fallout from their previous actions and get a new bioweapons assignment. In other news on the show, Pastor Tim grapples with the revelation that Philip and Elizabeth are Russian spies. While the show has already explored the depths of darkness of the characters in great detail, it appears that the show is getting even darker, and that’s what the producers are betting on.
Rarely has a show gotten better in its progression as The Americans. In fact the only other show I can think of that became more and more essential to viewers as the season wore on is Breaking Bad. And that’s truly saying something. At this point in the show, nearly all the characters are in danger so we’re hooked into finding out in what possible way they’ll get out of it. And if anything the world of Phillip and Elizabeth is getting smaller by the second. According to Wired:
The season premiere, “Glanders,” begins with circa-1983 Philip flashing back to a gruesome incident from his Soviet youth. The memory is one of the many existential hang-ups that’s sent Philip back to est, the self-awareness-stoking group-therapy confab that’s become his de facto confessional booth, and which has led to his growing realization that perhaps the US isn’t as bad as he was raised to believe. In a show full of increasingly wobbly allegiances, Philip’s slow embrace of America is perhaps the most poignant emotional defection yet: There’s a feeling he gets when he looks to the West, but no matter how much he may want to disappear into his illegally adopted home country, he’s doomed to forever be an outsider looking in.
We’d prefer not to give away the entire episode but we do have a great promo to see.
“Do people get hurt because of the things you get involved with?” Of course not.
Be sure to catch The Americans on FX tonight.
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