“Covert War” on the audience: Sam Lim and I detest Episode 11 of The Americans

Sam: I’m just bored at this point. This episode did nothing for me, since I honestly don’t think it presented anything new.

Nina and Stan almost broke it off, but it didn’t seem to last. Stan’s wife is mad at him, and so is his son. Phil and Elizabeth are still apart, although it seemed like she was going to ask him to move back but then her passive-aggressiveness got the best of her so he’s still not moving back home yet. And Elizabeth and Granny had not one but TWO utterly ear-splitting dialogues that made me want to gouge out my eyes.

Oh, and they decided to bring back flashbacks because another underdeveloped character died. I will say I thought it strange that the dude compared Elizabeth and Phil’s relationship to his own relationship with his dog.

Did I miss anything?

Jay: Nope, you really didn’t.

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About Samson X. Lim

Samson Lim is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Scholarship Junkies, a Seattle-based scholarship resource organization that works to help students make higher education more affordable. Sam spent the 2010-11 academic year in Berlin, Germany, as a U.S. Student Fulbright Scholar and is currently pursuing his Master of Arts in Education Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University. When he’s not buried in grad school reading, Sam emerges every once in a while to highlight higher education and financial aid issues in 140 characters or less at @samsonxlim.

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