- 5/16/13 /
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The Americans’ Hair Designer Weighs in on Ryan Fogle’s Terrible Wig
She's not pleased.
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- 5/13/13 /
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How to Design a Set: Mad Men, Scandal, and The Americans
The thinking, spending, and scavenger-hunting behind the little details you see (and don't see) on TV.
- 5/13/13 /
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Seitz: How to Direct a TV Drama
My auteurist theory of television.
- 5/2/13 /
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Here Are All of the Wigs Worn on The Americans [Updated!]
There are so many.
- 5/2/13 /
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The Americans Recap: Games Without Frontiers
Last night's finale brings down the curtain on maybe the best freshman outing since season one of Homeland.
- 5/1/13 /
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TV’s Saddest Character: Martha on The Americans
Oy, poor Martha.
- 4/25/13 /
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The Americans Recap: Marry Me Upside Down
Last night's Clark-Martha subplot is the closest The Americans has gotten to raised-eyebrow sitcom contrivance.
- 4/18/13 /
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The Americans Recap: The Body Count Continues
There is a moment with every season-one crush when you have a crisis of faith.
- 4/11/13 /
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The Americans Recap: No Future in His Sleep Tonight
Matt Zoller Seitz's second favorite episode of the season, after "Gregory."
- 4/8/13 /
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Seitz: The Americans Does Espionage Better Than Homeland
Like The Sopranos, The Americans is not about what it seems to be.
- 4/4/13 /
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The Americans Recap: Is It Safe?
Stan shows that the Russians aren't the only spies who understand revenge.
- 4/3/13 /
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Ask a Cold War Expert: How Realistic Is The Americans?
Vulture investigates.
- 3/29/13 /
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Everyone Makes Up Songs About TV Shows, Right?
Right? Guys?
- 3/21/13 /
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The Americans Recap: We Had an Arrangement
In which Elizabeth is reminded by the KGB that she's married, but not really.
- 3/14/13 /
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The Americans Recap: Marriage Is Not for Sissies
Man, this is one beleaguered marriage!
- 3/7/13 /
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The Americans Recap: Show Them Your Face!
This episode’s storytelling strategy could be summed up as “Mind-eff first, explain later."
- 2/28/13 /
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The Americans Recap: Sex for Secrets
Last night's episode was, to a degree, about how secrecy is a part of sex and love.
- 2/25/13 /
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Photos: How The Americans Blew Up a House
We were on set for the controlled explosion in Kew Gardens, Queens.
- 2/21/13 /
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FX Orders Another Season of The Americans
Correct.
- 2/21/13 /
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The Americans Recap: Who’s in Charge Here?
The Americans is shaping up to be as historically conscious a drama as Mad Men.
- 2/14/13 /
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The Americans Recap: The Heart Has Many Rooms
Last night's episode was a marvel, expertly paced, with a number of unexpectedly piercing scenes.
- 2/13/13 /
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Why Shows Like The Following Are Bigger Hits Than Originally Thought
Streaming and VOD numbers are shedding new light on shows that at first seem to have underperformed.
- 2/13/13 /
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The Americans’ Matthew Rhys on the KGB, His Felicity Blind Spot, and the Eighties
"Acid-washed jeans were global."
- 2/7/13 /
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The Americans Recap: Umbrellas and Caviar
After last week’s pilot, you might have worried that The Americans would bend over backward to make its characters as “likable” as possible. Nope!
- 2/6/13 /
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So You Want to Set a TV Show in the Eighties ...
The Carrie Diaries and The Americans remind us what you need: garish sweaters, cassettes, and more.