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My favorite episode and what a start to an amazing series

Strong pilot for a series with an excellent concept

City Island, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

America's not so bad. We've been here a *long* time. What's so bad about it? The electricity works all the time. Food's pretty great. The closet spac...

Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys in The Americans (2013)

Maximiliano Hernández in The Americans (2013)

Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Henry Jennings, Holly Taylor, and Keidrich Sellati in The Americans (2013)

Keri Russell

Matthew Rhys

Maximiliano Hernández

Joseph Weisberg

Mike Batistick

Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings are two seemingly normal Americans who are really undercover KGB agents. After kidnapping a Soviet defector they discover their new neighbor is an FBI agent assigned to their case.

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Keri Russell In Her Greatest Role Ever!

I would never have watched this show except I&apos;m a huge SONS OF ANARCHY fan and the Season Five DVD&apos;s have tons of commercials for it. Well. SOA is great, but The Americans stunned me. This was one of the best pilot episodes I have ever seen!

I&apos;ve been a huge fan of Keri Russell ever since Felicity and Malibu Shores. To me she&apos;s as beautiful as Grace Kelly, yet somehow much more accessible, more down to earth, someone who always seems rugged and gritty and real, even when she&apos;s wearing a ball gown. Yet someone who&apos;s alluring and seductive even in dirty jeans and a t-shirt.

So it&apos;s a good thing she&apos;s Keri Russell. Because in this pilot, she has to play not just one role, but about a half a dozen of the toughest roles she&apos;s ever had. She has to be a wife, a mother, a spy, a non-native speaker, a martial arts fighter, a rape victim, and much more! It&apos;s literally stunning the chances she has to take as an actress, the fight scenes, the sex scenes, and if that&apos;s not enough, she has to play her (much younger) self in a whole series of flashbacks!

But it&apos;s not just Keri&apos;s show. Matthew Rhys is amazing as the husband, a guy who seems so pleasant and appealing it&apos;s very easy to miss the deadly killer underneath. At the same time, he&apos;s so cynical and sophisticated that it&apos;s easy to miss what a devoted husband and father he really is. The chemistry between him and Keri is obvious (they&apos;re a couple in real life) but it builds slowly and somehow still manages to take you by surprise. Everything about this family feels real, and the two kids are never just cute. They&apos;re real people with dreams and ideals, just like their parents. Even the music is authentic, (&quot;Tusk&quot; rocks the house) and I know because I graduated from high school in 1981, the year this pilot episode is set!

The Americans: Pilot

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I would never have watched this show except I'm a huge SONS OF ANARCHY fan and the Season Five DVD's have tons of commercials for it. Well. SOA is great, but The Americans stunned me. This was one of the best pilot episodes I have ever seen!

I've been a huge fan of Keri Russell ever since Felicity and Malibu Shores. To me she's as beautiful as Grace Kelly, yet somehow much more accessible, more down to earth, someone who always seems rugged and gritty and real, even when she's wearing a ball gown. Yet someone who's alluring and seductive even in dirty jeans and a t-shirt.

So it's a good thing she's Keri Russell. Because in this pilot, she has to play not just one role, but about a half a dozen of the toughest roles she's ever had. She has to be a wife, a mother, a spy, a non-native speaker, a martial arts fighter, a rape victim, and much more! It's literally stunning the chances she has to take as an actress, the fight scenes, the sex scenes, and if that's not enough, she has to play her (much younger) self in a whole series of flashbacks!

But it's not just Keri's show. Matthew Rhys is amazing as the husband, a guy who seems so pleasant and appealing it's very easy to miss the deadly killer underneath. At the same time, he's so cynical and sophisticated that it's easy to miss what a devoted husband and father he really is. The chemistry between him and Keri is obvious (they're a couple in real life) but it builds slowly and somehow still manages to take you by surprise. Everything about this family feels real, and the two kids are never just cute. They're real people with dreams and ideals, just like their parents. Even the music is authentic, ("Tusk" rocks the house) and I know because I graduated from high school in 1981, the year this pilot episode is set!

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