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"The lone bright spot in this long, dark, TV-free week? Say it with me, savvy FX fans: last night&amp;#x27;s episode of The Americans. I&amp;#x27;ve been hooked on this show from the start, but I feel like the last two episodes have tossed the audience off a cliff and into a glorious free-fall of drama. It&amp;#x27;s so rare that a drama grows this complex and layered so quickly without feeling contrived. Watching it, I don&amp;#x27;t feel so much like I&amp;#x27;m watching a world be built as I am being thrown into a world that&amp;#x27;s existed forever--and just trying my best to keep up. It&amp;#x27;s surprising at every turn, but the shock moments are never cheesy hey-time-for-something-random-to-happen-and-change-everything! shock moments (ahem, this whole season of Revenge). The Americans doesn&amp;#x27;t have to bother with that frivolous stuff, because everyone in it has a mission they will execute at any cost--and the costs just keep rising. Much like the central spy characters, I can&amp;#x27;t say too much--or I&amp;#x27;ll ruin some of the addictive plotlines for you. But suffice to say if my begging--and the fact that its ratings have soared over the last few episodes--isn&amp;#x27;t enough to convince you, these arguments ought to. Because Margo Martindale is in it. &amp;#x27;Nuff said. Because for too long we&amp;#x27;ve assumed the only interesting pop-culture way to revisit the &amp;#x27;80s was by playing Cyndi Lauper on repeat. And watching this show is like getting to watch one of those goosebumps-raising Mad Men eps where a real historical event happens--except every single week. Because every time you&amp;#x27;re sure Matthew Rhys is just the hottest, he turns around and puts on a disguise like this: And that makes you hate yourself a little bit. Because Noah Emmerich defies all good guy/bad guy classifications and root for/root against reasoning. Because I have a feeling Holly Taylor is about to turn into TV&amp;#x27;s best wild, moody teenager--and the neighbor kid who will no doubt become her partner in acting-out crime is Daniel Flaherty, a.k.a.the shy guy from Skins. And, most important, because Keri Russell--in all of her undercover looks--is giving the performance of her lifetime. She is both trepidatious &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; wife and dead-eyed, cold-hearted assassin. She is magnificent. Seriously. You cannot miss another moment of it. Who else is obsessed with this show? Photo: FX"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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