‘The Americans’ Review: Smoking Kills and the Truth Comes Out in a Game-Changing Episode 8 — Spoilers

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “The Americans” Season 6, Episode 8, “The Summit.”]Much of what happens in “The Summit” can be summed up in a few simple sentences: Philip tells Elizabeth he’s been spying on her.

Elizabeth finally says no to a mission, effectively switching sides in the internal Soviet conflict.

Stan is more convinced than ever his neighbors are Russian operatives.But details matter, as they always do on “The Americans,” and one telling mistake seems to be the damning one for Elizabeth: smoking.

People notice that she smokes a lot, and even though she’s covered her ass in every other way imaginable (ways which would’ve seemed unimaginable — all those wigs — before they were depicted in this series), that vague identifier could be enough to be her downfall.With two episodes left before the series says dosvedanya, IndieWire is taking a look at where things stand at the present moment, but also

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