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The Americans recap: ‘A Roy Rogers in Franconia’

Philip is playing the video game Defender, but that doesn’t last long. Henry takes over the game as Elizabeth and Paige enter the house, clearly in a state of distress.

Paige just watched her mother kill a would-be attacker in a parking lot, and now the girl is grappling with just how deadly her parents may be in their secret roles as Soviet spies.

“Don’t we have to call the police?” Paige asks.

“We can’t draw any attention to ourselves,” her mother answers.

“Did you have to do that?” her daughter replies.

“Yeah. I did.”

Paige is overwhelmed. “I feel sick,” she says. Continue reading The Americans recap: ‘A Roy Rogers in Franconia’

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Keri Russell Gives Birth

Break out the bubbly! Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys have welcomed their first child together, Us Weekly has confirmed.

The Felicity alum gave birth sometime last week, a source tells Us, and the actress’ mom and brother “have been staying with Keri for the last week, spending all their time doting over the baby.”

“Keri and Matt both look overjoyed and are over the moon to be new parents,” the source adds. “They are always snapping pictures of the baby, and family and friends have been sending gifts.”

Us Weekly broke the news in January that The Americans costars were expecting and that they couldn’t be more excited to become parents.

Russell, 40, and Rhys, 41, deflected questions about their relationship for months after hooking up on the set of their FX series in 2013, but finally appeared as a couple at NYC’s The Public Theater in April 2014.

“Matthew is really in love,” a source told Us. “They feel they should have always been together.”

Though Russell has never publicly gushed about Rhys, she has talked about what it’s like to act opposite the Welsh hunk. “What I enjoy is [Rhys] makes it so easy,” she told the Los Angeles Times in June 2014. “You feel you’re in safe hands, and it’s enjoyable to work like that because you’re sort of like, let him do all the hard stuff.”

Russell is already mom to son River, 8, and Willa, 4, with ex-husband Shane Deary, who she divorced in 2013 after almost seven years of marriage.

Source: http://www.usmagazine.com

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The Americans recap: ‘Dinner For Seven’

Ding-dong! It’s Pastor Tim at the front door.

“I don’t feel right about what happened … that you felt frightened for your safety because of something that happened to me,” he tells Mr. and Mrs. Jennings.

They tell him it’s okay, but the Pastor, having just survived being lost in Ethiopia while serving as a missionary there, says they’re being generous. He apologizes for his wife threatening to expose their spy background, and says he finally understands what it feels like to fear for your well-being.

The Jennings family invites him and Alice to dinner. What better way to make amends than to break bread?

The title of this episode is “Dinner for Seven,” so we can count on at least one more surprise guest at that meal.

At Gabriel’s, Elizabeth’s handler presents her with a special treat from the old country: pierogi. He also has bad news: The center turned down her request to stop manipulating Don and Young Hee to gain Level Four access to the bio-weapons facility. “It has to move forward,” Gabriel tells her.

So Elizabeth fulfills her duty. After drugging Don and tricking him into thinking he slept with her, she goes to the house when he’s alone and tells him she’s pregnant. He is shocked, horrified, and tells her she shouldn’t have the baby. He offers to pay for an abortion, but Elizabeth, a.k.a. “Patty,” scoffs at the suggestion.
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FX’s The Americans to end in 2018

The Americans is coming to end. But at least not for awhile.

FX has given the acclaimed drama series a final, two-season pickup. A 13-episode fifth season will air in 2017, with a 10-episode sixth and final season to follow in 2018.

“It’s hard to believe we’re heading into the final stretch on The Americans, and we’re so grateful to know we’ll be telling the story to its conclusion,” said showrunners Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg in a statement. “The best part of the last four years has been the intensive and fruitful collaboration with all of the people who make this show …We’re looking forward to the final two.”

Added FX president of original programming Eric Schrier: “Through its first four seasons, critics have lauded The Americans as one of the best shows on television and, remarkably, a series that keeps getting better every year. All credit for that achievement goes to everyone who has worked on the show.”

The announcement will give the showrunners plenty of time to craft a final arc to their tale of married Soviet spies (Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys) in the 1980s. Perhaps the espionage thriller will also score an Emmy or two for its stars or showrunners as well – despite the drama’s love from critics (The Americans currently averages a chart-topping 95 out of 100 on Metacritic), Emmy and Golden Globes wins have eluded the series (aside from a guest actress Emmy for Margo Martindale).

Three episodes remain in the current season, with the season 4 finale airing June 8.

Source: http://www.ew.com

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