The nature of episodic television means a viewer can settle into a comfortable rhythm.
And some expected events are so big you dont even expect them until even a season or two later.
Stingers features one of those everything changes events…with three full episodes in the third season to go.
Philip shuts him down quite adeptly but there is an element of truth to what Tim is saying.
There is no smoking gun that Paige needs to know that something is up with her parents.
combined with the fact that she doesnt have any extended family members that she knows of.
Then tell me the truth.
And so they do.
Even the best spies have to know when their cover is blown.
Paige, your father and I…we… We were born in a different country.
Were here to help our people.
We work for our country.
Information they couldnt get in other ways.
Just like that one ofThe Americans biggest dramatic arrows is out of the quiver for good.
Its deftly handled and again: so surprising.
Stingers, itself, begins by looking like its going in a completely different direction.
In Soviet Union, this would never happen.).
Then Philip is invited to a frat party with Kimmy through that fateful phonecall from Barb.
While tucking a hammered Kimmy in, he retrieves crucial information from the listening rig in her house.
The Mujahadeen is going to be meeting with the C.I.A.
Immediately Philip and Elizabeth swing into action: Yousuf tried to get in touch with Islamabad but cant.
And its also rings true from a parenting perspective.
And everything does come to a stop.
Philip and Elizabeth sit alone in their car, unsure of what to do.
So they do the only thing they can do: go back to work.
To fake-work, not work-work.
Rating:
4.5 out of 5
