TV pilots can be a funny thing. Setting up a brilliant premise and squeezing in all your best ideas, lines and action into that first hour of telly to get a programme made is one thing. Being able to follow it up without there being a sense of anti-climax is entirely another.
Thankfully The Americans doesn't fall into the trap of the 'tricky second episode', expanding on the pilot's strengths and digging deeper into the secrets and lies at the heart of this compelling espionage show.
Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip (Matthew Rhys) got down to some proper spying this week and their back seat romps were put on the, erm, back seat. Ordered to get a listening device into the defence secretary's office ahead of a visit from Maggie Thatcher, the duo showcased their ruthlessness and also their frailties as spies.
Willing to poison a maid's son to blackmail...
Thankfully The Americans doesn't fall into the trap of the 'tricky second episode', expanding on the pilot's strengths and digging deeper into the secrets and lies at the heart of this compelling espionage show.
Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip (Matthew Rhys) got down to some proper spying this week and their back seat romps were put on the, erm, back seat. Ordered to get a listening device into the defence secretary's office ahead of a visit from Maggie Thatcher, the duo showcased their ruthlessness and also their frailties as spies.
Willing to poison a maid's son to blackmail...
- 6/8/2013
- Digital Spy
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