My DVR cut off and this week is not yet on On Demand. Can anyone tell me what happened in the very end? It cut off while Stan was remembering a conversation he had in a car with his partner. Much appreciated.
Evidently the show ran long. My DirectTV DVR also stopped.
However, after the remembered conversation in the car, Stan picked up some junk food and went back to the safe house where they were keeping the Russian. Small talk ensued. Russian admitted he was in KGB but still claimed to know nothing. Stan walked behind him to get him a cold drink and blew his brains out.
At that point my DVR stopped! I hope that was the end of the episode.
Anyone know if anything happened after that?
LOS ANGELES, April 4, 2013 – FX will post the most recent episode of The Americans (aired on Wednesday, April 3) on www.FXnetworks.com for encore online viewing due to an error by its publicity department (FX - Fearless) Last night’s ninth episode of The Americans, “Safe House,” aired from 10:00 to 11:07 PM ET/PT. The correct listings information was not properly disseminated to television listings services that provide information to media outlets, cable and satellite providers. As a result of the error, electronic guides which trigger the run times of DVRs incorrectly recorded the total running time of one hour (10:00-11:00 PM ET/PT), therefore cutting off the final seven minutes of the episode.
For those who can’t wait until next week! Turns out that I only missed about 20 seconds.
Nope, that’s it.
Man I love this show.
My DirecTV DVR cut off when Vlad admitted his was KGB. I figured Beaman would kill him, but didn’t see it.
Great episode, really digging into the personal failings and emotional entanglements that keep the espionage world from being the smooth machine it’s meant to be.
Quick idea: in the same way the The Wire centered on institutions failing the individuals that were part of them, might The Americans be taking the opposite approach, of individuals failing the institutions they serve?
I was actually shocked to see that sort of scene on commerical TV. I’m all for it, but it’s surprising that it made it past the censors. Rear and side nudity is pretty common now, and language restrictions have been lessened, but that was a pretty graphic depiction of doggy-style sex.
Technically, this being cable TV, it’s just a question of what they think might alienate the advertisers. And if they haven’t been scared off by the wigs, I think they can handle a little bit of doggy-style. 
Fine episode. Anyone thing that getting Gregory to suicide by cop was the backup plan all along? Far neater than have the agents kill them and with less potential complications.
I do think that they need to resolve the marital issue soon, its dragging.
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I was actually shocked to see that sort of scene on commerical TV. I’m all for it, but it’s surprising that it made it past the censors. Rear and side nudity is pretty common now, and language restrictions have been lessened, but that was a pretty graphic depiction of doggy-style sex.
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It was (with the context of the show) very unsexy and far from titillating. So that might have caused the censors to okay it.
That was a heartbreaking episode, made especially powerful with To Love Somebody as performed by the great Roberta Flack. I swear I didn’t even recognize the Bee Gees song until I looked it up. Amazing interpretation, and the perfect backdrop.
Good penultimate episode. Not as riveting as the Southland episode which aired opposite, but good in its own right.
Penultimate? I think there’s 3 more to go.
Oh yeah? I thought I saw something about “next week’s season finale”, but perhaps I’m thinking of Southland. I record them both and watch back-to-back.
Yes, SouthLAnd ends the season next week. And since there’s no thread for that show currently running, just let me say WOW at that penultimate episode.
No shit. I thought I was the only person on this board who is watching the series, which routinely turns in great episodes. While there are a couple of character subplots I could do without (baby blues, anybody?), in general it’s a great series.
Back to The Americans, was that an Ozzy Osbourne song playing when Elizabeth met Gregory at the bar?
While it is certainly neater to have Gregory go down in a gunfire exchange with cops, because it ends the trail to further connections and supports Gregory as the killer, I do not think it was in the KGB’s plans at all to allow it. Far to risky that something might happen, that he might not really have the strength to do it, that he might just get wounded and then be in police custody, etc. It was risky, which is why Katherine pulled the gun on Gregory in the first place, and then begged Philip to let him do it. If it were their actual plan, there would not have been that consternation, they would have been happy he was on board, and just maybe gave the nod to reminding him the importance of getting actually dead.
Either he went to Moscow, or they were to kill him and dispose of the body. One potential way would be dump him in an alley, like a drug deal gone bad or suicide or just let them recover the body knowing it was an execution. None of that leads to the deep sleeper agents.
No, too many complications. I do believe that this time the KGB was sincere about exfilitration though. He is after all a valued agent, and would be useful in Moscow. My power went out last week so I watched last week’s episode right before tonight’s. All I can say is Elizabeth & Claudia’s weird little game is going end with one of them getting killed; probally Claudia since I doubt they’ll write Elizabeth out of the show so early. I agree about the marriage; I’m losing what interest I had in that subplot. It was pretty obvious the how that last conversation was going to end. Nina in her new office was pretty funny.
I’m strongly suspicious that Nina’s new job, and her being told about the bug in Casper Weinberger’s office, is all a test. I’ll be very disappointed if what happens is that she tells Stan, then they remove the bug, then the Russians know she’s a mole and bye bye Nina. WAY too obvious, and Stan and co. should be smarter than that.
Refresh my memory …why does Elizabeth hate Claudia so much? Is it just the fake kidnapping to test her? You’d think that she would understand the need and get over it.