Salon.com > joe weisberg http://www.salon.com Fri, 03 May 2013 21:18:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “The Americans’” creators discuss the season finale http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/the_americans_showrunners_discuss_the_season_finale/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/02/the_americans_showrunners_discuss_the_season_finale/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 03:00:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13287209 "The Americans," FX's excellent and exciting spy series about two married, deep-cover KGB agents, Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, living in 1980s America, finished its first season in fitting fashion: with a finale full of, but never overrun by, action. The season ender contained not one but two covert missions, a sting, a high-speed car chase, and a shooting, but ended quietly, with the CIA momentarily foiled and Philip and Elizabeth, a bullet wound in her side, finally reconciled. Next season has near endless juicy material to explore: Nina, now a USSR double agent, is out to flip Stan; Elizabeth may want Philip to come home, but one of his alter-egos is still married to Martha; the Jennings' daughter is getting suspicious of her mother; and the Cold War is only escalating. "The Americans''' two showrunners, Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg, also the series creator and a former CIA agent himself, spoke with me about the finale, season 2, the intentional lack of cliffhanger and those super wigs.

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