‘The Americans’ Review: Season 6 Will Emotionally Destroy You in Grand, Meaningful Fashion

No one likes it when mom and dad fight.

Even when the disputes revolve around common (if disparate) problems like spilled milk or sleeping with your assistant, they’re uncomfortable at best, unnatural at worst.

So what happens when the issues are bigger than that? When instead of dad being upset with mom for forgetting their anniversary, he’s still harboring hostility over training their daughter to become an assassin of the state? This isn’t just a personal disagreement; it’s a matter of national security, making it all the more difficult to watch.With higher stakes come requisite rewards.

“The Americans” is pitting our favorite TV parents since Coach and Tami Taylor against each other and asking us to bear witness to a no-holds-barred clash of wills, skills, and life-or-death decisions with the weight of the world behind each guardian.

On one hand, that’s crazy.

For a

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