"The Americans" FX Series

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<p>Anyone watching this series? I’m hooked!</p>

<p>Last night’s episode was shocking. The sex scenes are getting wild too. Haha!</p>

<p>My DirecTV recorder stopped it a couple minutes before the end…I had to watch a whole real time repeat (fortunately FX repeats a lot) to find out what happened in the final minutes.</p>

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<p>Excellent series! I do know that this was based on a true story. Except the faux Americans (some of them anyway) lived in Long Island, New York. And as for the end…truly shocking.</p>

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<p>DH and I are watching and we, too, are hooked. We had recorded all episodes and watched them all this past weekend. We will watch last night’s episode tonight.</p>

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<p>Our DVR also stopped recording a few minutes before the end.</p>

<p>I recorded a later showing but I didn’t add enough time, and it also stopped before the end.</p>

<p>Not sure that it will be repeated again…</p>

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<p>I keep worrying Philip’s wig is going to be pulled off by Martha… He needs to be more careful. :)</p>

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<p>It was very frustrating it ran over. I’ll need to adjust the settings to record 30 minutes over.</p>

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<p>You can watch the show online for free.
After watching two episodes, I was going to wait until the season was over and then just watch them all. </p>

<p>Instead, I watched 5 tonight. I saw the title of this thread and that was it…</p>

<p>I started a thread earlier about the show. It is just a great show.</p>

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<p>Hi dstark! Sorry I missed your thread. Shoulda done a search first.</p>

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<p>Xiggi is prob getting a kick the Berzerkeley guys like a show about commie spies. :D</p>

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<p>Dstark, do you have a link to the online episodes? I really would love to watch the show, but just can’t do it in real time (and do not want to mess with any DVRs). Thanks!</p>

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<p>[FX</a> Networks - The Americans - Full Episodes and Exclusive Video](<a href=“FX - Fearless”>http://vod.fxnetworks.com/watch/theamericans)</p>

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<p>Cool. Thanks! My weekend plans need some minor adjustments. :)</p>

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<p>BunsenBurner, I see that UCB provided a link…</p>

<p>“Xiggi is prob getting a kick the Berzerkeley guys like a show about commie spies.”</p>

<p>I find myself rooting for the Russian couple. Lol</p>

<p>The sex scenes are getting wild. :)</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.glamour.com/entertainment/blogs/obsessed/2013/03/6-reasons-you-need-to-start-wa.html[/url]”>http://www.glamour.com/entertainment/blogs/obsessed/2013/03/6-reasons-you-need-to-start-wa.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I love Nina. Best line, "You Americans always think in black & white. To us, everything is gray. "</p>

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<p>That was a great line…</p>

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<p>Here is dstark’s thread: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/1455024-did-anybody-watch-americans-fx-3.html?highlight=the+americans[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/1455024-did-anybody-watch-americans-fx-3.html?highlight=the+americans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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I thought the same thing.</p>

<p>I’m trying to think of a device back in the early 80s where you hit a pause button so the kids will understand what it means. I suppose they can afford a Betamax or a Walkman. I have to check the upcoming episodes if they do have one.</p>

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<p>dstark, thanks for the link to the glamour article. Margo Martindale! Love! Ever since she drank the poison hooch in Justified I’ve been looking for another role for her to chew up the scenery.</p>

<p>FX has 2 of my can’t miss series!</p>

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<p>Deb922, you are welcome.</p>

<p>I just caught up with the series. Watched the episode entitled Safe House.</p>

<p>The fbi agent who lives next door is fantastic…</p>

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<p>Deb922, if you watch New Girl, the episode “Chicago” has Margo playing Nicks mom.
I was waiting for her to say " It was already in the glass".:wink:
She didn’t say that, but she did growl a few times.
The 2nd episode from ths year “Katie” has Raymond Barry(Arlo) playing " Nick from the future".
Maybe next year they could have Jeremy Davies( Dickie) and Damon Herriman ( Dewey) play a gay couple next door. Oh please!</p>

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<p>Tape deck.</p>

<p>I knew what a “pause” button was as a kid growing up in the 60s. Cassettes came into common usage in the late 60’s. I don’t know the vintage of this thing, but you can clearly see the pause button on this portable cassette player: [File:RadioShack-ctr-119.jpg</a> - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RadioShack-ctr-119.jpg]File:RadioShack-ctr-119.jpg”>File:RadioShack-ctr-119.jpg - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>By the 1980’s, mini-cassettes were also in common use, also with pause buttons. I graduated law school in the late 70’s, and cassettes were pretty standard media.</p>