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"I should begin and end my recap of last night&amp;#x27;s episode of The Americans with the following seven words: Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys SIXTY. NINING! This brief scene was so good that as soon as it was over, I took a moment and offered up some praise to the TV sex-scene gods&amp;amp;#8212;Cinemax&amp;amp;#8212;for blessing my eyeballs with that visual: OK, now that that is out of the way, it&amp;#x27;s time for me to return to the task at the hand, which is writing about the show that, in my opinion, is the most underrated program on television. All last season, viewers were presented with combination of high-octane spy action and deeply complicated interpersonal relationships (with a dash of sexiness), and this season is no different as the season-two premiere, &amp;quot;Comrades,&amp;quot; showed us. We saw bullets, butts, and the death of [REDACTED], so let&amp;#x27;s discuss what went down and start making predictions for how the next 12 episodes will play out. We open the episode by picking up about two months after the finale: KGB spy Elizabeth (Russell) has fully recovered from her gunshot wound and has returned to her family, which includes two children&amp;amp;#8212;Henry and Paige&amp;amp;#8212;and fellow spy and husband, Philip. During this time, she seems to have developed newfound romantic feelings for Philip to the point that she plants a big, gushy kiss on him in front of their kids, who are thrilled (Paige especially) to see Mom and Dad back together. In fact, Paige lingers for a few moments to watch her parents kiss. While most viewers might think this is cute and chalk that up to her being excited, I&amp;#x27;m irritated as hell. Paige is annoying. She spent the latter half of last season snooping around and seeing what her parents are up to, and I feel like this is the season where she&amp;#x27;ll either put Elizabeth and Philip in danger or will get herself killed. I don&amp;#x27;t want her to die obviously&amp;amp;#8212;she&amp;#x27;s only 16&amp;amp;#8212;but I wouldn&amp;#x27;t mind if someone took a pair of scissors to her bangs and f**ked them up, so she would learn to mind her own damn business. Back to Philip and Elizabeth: Not only are they in sync in the feelings department, they&amp;#x27;re also on the same page when it comes to business, including their travel agency, which serves as a cover for them, especially when a highly dangerous situation arises, but I&amp;#x27;ll get to that in a second. Anyway, call me a sap, but I&amp;#x27;m beyond thrilled that they are back together and are only having sex with other people if a mission requires it, as the first of their joint missions did. Under the guise of doing a &amp;quot;date night,&amp;quot; which Paige&amp;#x27;s nosy-ass questioned, Philip and Elizabeth team up with fellow spies Emmett and Leanne to get a Lockheed Martin employee working for them, but this is less important than the relationship between the two KGB couples. They&amp;#x27;re friends, and despite how tough it was to leave Russia, they have fully immersed themselves into American life, which is something that Elizabeth has resisted strongly in the past. Yet hanging out with this couple, it seems to make Elizabeth consider the possibility of getting comfortable in America. So comfortable that later that night she and Philip fool around and Paige gets scarred for life when she walks on them. I lol&amp;#x27;d at this awkward moment, but I also because this is way better than someone ruining Paige&amp;#x27;s bangs. She will definitely not open a door without knocking again. Unfortunately, the damage is done, and Philip now wonders how many other times Paige has tried to see what he and Elizabeth are up to. Before we can delve any further into that, we turn our attention to FBI agent Stan, whose marriage is strained. He&amp;#x27;s falling deeper and deeper in love with his mistress and KGB &amp;quot;contact&amp;quot; Nina. I mean, he hasn&amp;#x27;t said the L-word yet, but he watched a sad Meryl Streep movie with her in their &amp;quot;safe house.&amp;quot; Obvs, he&amp;#x27;s in love, which is makes it sadder that Nina has turned double agent and is feeding him wack KGB intelligence. And it&amp;#x27;s doubly sad to see Sandra, his wife, try to save the marriage and Stan pretty much be overit.com. Oy. I really don&amp;#x27;t see this ending well for anyone in this love triangle. So do you remember Elizabeth&amp;#x27;s comfort that I mentioned earlier? Well, it&amp;#x27;s quickly shattered during her second mission with her friends. Due to circumstances changing last minute, Emmett tells Philip that he has to use Henry during a brush pass and neither he nor Elizabeth are stoked to be doing this as kids are never used during missions. Thankfully, the pass is successful, and the two go to drop off the package at Emmett and Leanne&amp;#x27;s hotel room. And that&amp;#x27;s when Philip and Elizabeth see the carnage: Their friends, along with their daughter, have been brutally murdered. Not only is this horrible to see, but it also hearkens back to the opening of &amp;quot;Comrades,&amp;quot; in which Philip&amp;#x27;s mission went badly and he had to kill three people. If it isn&amp;#x27;t clear by now, this season of The Americans is going to be messy, violent, and heartbreaking. I&amp;#x27;m not ready for it, but I&amp;#x27;m going along for the ride. All that I ask is that Philip and Elizabeth never break up again, but they probably will. Oh, well. A girl can dream. What did you think of last night&amp;#x27;s episode? Who do you think is onto Philip and Elizabeth?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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