The Americans is back, Season 6

[RingtheBells]

Havent watched it yet but just noticed that my Sky box had recorded it last night on ITV 4 at 10 o'clock, I'm sure it was on ITV encore last season. Looking forward to this and it's the last season so hope the end is good.

Couldn't see a thread and don't want anyone to miss it .

Also Henry will have Stan (morally flawed but better than nothing) to take care of him (and pay the last year's school fees).

Paige though is more cut adrift. No friends, no adult relations, no Claudia. Perhaps she'll head down to Pastor Tim - though his wife won't be too welcoming.

I think her problem may be that even if the FBI cuts a deal with her, people/future employers won't believe she didn't know anything - presumably this will be on the front pages all over the USA (unless it is all hushed up - difficult given the huge police operation at their house, as presumably there are other neighbours even though we never met them).

Convinced that Renee is a KGB spy. See how her face registered a flicker of a smile while she watched the FBI remove the boxes from the Jennings' house.

About the priests, as someone previously mentioned, they followed the illegal in Chicago for a while and learned a lot about their methods.
They brought the first priest in, just to try and see what they could get out of him. You could see from the agents faces that they weren't expecting him to spill quite so much! He named Father Andrei so that meant they could focus their surveillance on him, which led them to Philip.
If you like detailed recaps, I can recommend previously.tv which reviews a lot of American and some British tv. It was started by some of the people who had worked on the now defunct televisionwithoutpity

So, now that it's all over, I have been thinking about the earlier series. When Nina was trying to persuade Stan to exfiltrate her in the first series, why didn't she just go to the embassy/walk into a police station, and claim asylum?

Maybe she knew she wouldn't survive without being given a new identity/protection - though by the end her position was so precarious that it might have been worth taking that chance.

One of the letters in this weeks Radio Times is singing the praises of this series.

ITVs justification for burying it (not that I realised) was not enough demand.

A great review here: www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-americans-finale-was-elegant-potent-and-unforgettable