Posted on 10/07/2020 6:59:58 PM PDT by az wildkitten
2020 Rewatching the Americans from FX. Observing how the Commies freaked out over Ronald Reagan. I think the left is more freaked by PDJT!
That was an excellent show, though the ending was disappointing.
The ending episode of FX’s The Amerikans was disappointing, but only in the sense that it had to end at all, one of my all time favorite TV shows!
The ending of The Americans was a botch. The writers could have instead been true to both the subject matter and the story. In one real spy case from the era, the Soviet spy (the father) defected for the sake of his patriotic and fully American son — who had won an Air Force academy appointment. Remarkably, it was the FBI background check on the son that led to discovery of the father as a Soviet spy and his eventual defection.
because its not just the left now
its the entire uniparty/deep state apparatus
yeah they botched the ending
the fbi guy wouldn’t have let them go after all that
yeah and since there are real life examples this would have been far more plausible/believable
There's a little artistic license with the history, but IMHO, it establishes a feel for the tensions and sentiments of the colonies during the revolution.
The left feared Reagan because they swore he would start WWIII. The left fears Trump becuase he is fixing things the left said couldn’t be fixed, thereby exposing them as frauds to minorities.
They are much more worried about Donald Trump because they know now they can be defeated.
“In one real spy case from the era, the Soviet spy (the father) defected for the sake of his patriotic and fully American son ...”
That was really, really, really what I wanted to have happen in that show. I wanted the husband to defect and drag the wife kicking and screaming, which you know she would have been.
But it was a GREAT show, really well done how they kept you sympathetic to pretty much everyone, and yet still showed how evil Communism is.
Hubby and I screwed up, fell behind watching it, and then changed TV providers, losing a whole season as the Tech took our DVR away. So dumb!
Then we just kind of forgot, but didn’t really.
This year when the pandemic broke out, we were like, we’ve got to finish The Americans! For a while I was just praying I wouldn’t die of covid before we finished it.
I do have to re-watch that last episode.
I was disappointed in the ending as well. I had a much better ending plotted out...it had such potential, too. It was a great series though. Still not as bad as Dexter’s ending.
“Turn: Washington’s Spies.”
This has been recommended to me. Do you think it would be OK for my very smart 8 yo grandson? He’s very into the Presidents and American History (thanks to Hamilton, the musical, in part, gotta give that hat tip to Miranda).
However, in real life, it wasn't Directorate S illegals who led to the near destruction of this nation...
The real strategic and tactical work, already under way in the 1980's, was the Directorate X (my label) legals who were gradually began to acquire federal government jobs or, in the 1970's, become teachers/indoctrinators on the Nation's public school system...
They are now the real undercover communist heroes... They more than accomplished (and continue to accomplish) desires of the Soviet Union that Directorate S never could...
Worry, worry, worry about that pain-in-the-ass "butterfly" left jab and it's the right uppercut or cross that gets you...
In my opinion there are some aspects of the show that would be a little too gritty for an 8 year old. There is some battlefield brutality, no nudity that I recall, but a few suggestive story lines where sex was used for compromise, blackmail, etc. as one might expect in a spy series.
I thought the FBI guy lett them go because of his paternal feelings for Henry.
Thanks Joe 6-pack!
I was thinking about what I had said to you in my reply. There is a LOT of interesting period details that an 8 year old would like, and while there is some violence an innuendo, it’s not excessive. Under further consideration, if you screened the episodes, and were able to skip some of the more grown up scenes, it would probably be good for an 8 year old.
Thanks again! We’ve done that in the past, with my daughter, when she was little. just fast fowarded through certain scenes. Those things are almost never essential to the main plot, they’re just put in to jazz things up. Which is fine too, I have no objection to adult level entertainment.
Remember that movie that everybody loved so much, “Sideways”? About a couple of guys having life issues as they wandered through the California wine country (that’s how I remember it). I think it even won Best Picture at the Oscars.
It was an OK movie, but the thing that was great about it was that it bored my then teenage daughter half to death. She watched about one minute of it. I was like: good, something for the grownups for once!
Becoming a parent sure changes perspective. I watched the movie "Risen," before my daughter was born, and thought, this is a great, thought provoking Christian movie (which it is).
After my daughter was born, I watched it again, and all of a sudden the crucifixion scene, rotting corpses on Golgotha, etc. were a LOT more noticeable.
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