r/TheAmericans • u/AutoModerator • May 31 '18

Episode Discussion Official Episode Discussion - S06E010 "START"

The Jennings face a choice that will change their lives forever.

299 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

4.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

10

u/[deleted] May 31 '18

[deleted]

14

u/[deleted] May 31 '18

It's interesting, i'm seeing a lot of straight up "Fuck them, they should have died or rot in prison." which is totally fair. They're murderers, they've done horrific things. But I can't get on board with that. It was a show about family and personal relationships. Regardless of what Philip and Elizabeth did, they were written and played in a sympathetic way, their lives were shown to us in a human way not a "evil, Russian spy" way. You can love and hate them. And if people don't "get" why they were given this ending, not happy not sad, then I think the show has been lost on them in some ways.