![]() ![]() Philip and Elizabeth are still together, but there’s something building between them. That would be a fatal mistake for most people. Philip has just betrayed her, their homeland, and their entire partnership. The opening montage is set, brilliantly, to Crowded House’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over.” That song features the lyric “a wall between us,” which I’ve always misheard as “a war between us.” Both phrases feel accurate. She pulls away, isolating herself upstairs. But the best idea in The Americans is that every relatable marriage problem trends global and fatal. There’s some typical empty nest syndrome, maybe, that moment when abandoned parents have to figure out how to be just married again. Their kids are out of the house, to college and a boarding school. ![]() So they’ve gone in two directions, our Jenningses. ![]() Oliver Stone’s movie, which captivated a generation, was an attempted satire but became a playbook for decades of conspicuous consumption (and financial armageddon). That’s a subtle indication of a time jump-years have passed since last season-and maybe a joke on Philip’s newfound Reaganaut attitude. In the montage, we catch a brief sight of a movie marquee advertising Wall Street. ![]()
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