I believe your future is bright.
In one scene of this week’s episode of The Americans, Stan Beeman asks his wife Sandra if the man she’s leaving him for is “a good guy.” She replies that he’s “able to be in the flow of things."
What makes heartbreak on The Americans more heartbreaking is the way that its characters can almost never be "in the flow of things.” Held back by the rules and expectations of the systems in which they operate, they can’t fully inhabit the moments in their own lives. They can’t give proper voice to their own feelings. They can’t even properly say goodbye. This week’s episode is full of such moments. A teenager is uprooted without warning from the only life he’s ever known–he’ll never see any of his friends again, and he’s being sent off alone to he knows not where. And here, in another scene from this week’s episode, Oleg comes to see Nina. Without actually being able to say any of it, he tells her to run, and that he loves her, and that he’ll miss her so much.

















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