- AP Photo/FX, Craig Blankenhorn
- Noah Emmerich as FBI agent Stan Beeman in a scene from the first season of The Americans
“Fast-paced drama,” Alessandra Stanley, New York Times.
Here’s Stanley describing it this week in the Times.
There have been rocky patches. Last season Elizabeth threw Philip out of the house for philandering—though that had nothing to do with his romance with Martha, which was strictly tradecraft. Martha had a nicely placed job in Stan’s office, so Philip, wearing a funny wig and calling himself “Clark,” wooed and won her, and at the end of season one, they actually married, Elizabeth attending the wedding as Clark’s sister “Jennifer.”
