Kids change everything, and not only in ways youd expect.
you’re free to always guess at the obvious ones.
Then theres the unexpected.
In season three, however, Martha hasnt had much to do other than pine for children with Clark.
But thats unfairly reductive to Martha.
Still, it matters to Martha.
Adopting or birthing a child is a little apocalypse unto itself.
Everything ends and then starts anew.
The aforementioned scene where Gaad, Aderholt and Beeman find the bug is fantastic in its placement.
There was nothing thematically to suggest that the bug would be discovered anytime soon.
Gaads pen just stopped working in the middle of an episode, like pens sometimes do.
And Aderholt happens to be able to hear a equipment rattling around inside it.
Its mundane and lucky just like a lot of spywork on The Americans.
Martha in her enlightened state smartly destroys the transmitter Philip gave her.
The ordeal makes Martha do something she had not done before: ask to see Clarks apartment.
For the first time in three years, Martha seems legitimately uneasy with the mysterious man she married.
Elizabeth rendezvous with South African communist Reuben Ncgobo to concoct a pan to nab Venter.
His wig in the kidnapping scene rendered me very, very wrong.
Philip posts up at a diner, monitoring South African radical Todd and waiting for Venter.
Elizabeth waits in a van doing the same.
Philip responds by telling Elizabeth he has a son in Afghanistan.
But he must know on some level that Martha may not want to adopt with him anymore.
Clarks own darkness was discovered alongside the bug.
And Martha wouldnt want to bring a child into that union.
Or hell, maybe she would, just to ensure that Clark is firmly on her side.
It worked for the KGB.
OnThe Americans, the children arent just our future theyre our excuses.
Rating:
4 out of 5