The Americans

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Season 5
  • Network: FX
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 30, 2013
Season #: 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
8.4

Universal acclaim- based on 177 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 151 out of 177
  2. Mixed: 13 out of 177
  3. Negative: 13 out of 177
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  1. OlivierPiel
    Mar 23, 2017
    1
    The first seasons were really good, especially Philip's existential struggles . In season 5, any pretense of realism has been thrown out of the window. Just another show you prayed would have gracefully found a satisfying ending but has, instead, extended its welcome.
    Vastly overrated at this point
  2. BobaBay
    Aug 12, 2017
    0
    This is like, honestly, one of the worst seasons I've ever seen in my entire life, and I'm honestly 78 years old. This is just so bad on so many levels that I regret ever jumping into this series. SMH.
  3. olimpia
    Mar 8, 2017
    1
    I know critics are obsessed with this show but I believe this one should be the final season. The missions are getting hard to believe. They are the only survivors among the buch of soviet agents we have been introduced all these years, the CIA has "the americans"s identik and nobody recongnize them . A humble opinion, sorry. Enough for me. I ll better wait till next year to see howI know critics are obsessed with this show but I believe this one should be the final season. The missions are getting hard to believe. They are the only survivors among the buch of soviet agents we have been introduced all these years, the CIA has "the americans"s identik and nobody recongnize them . A humble opinion, sorry. Enough for me. I ll better wait till next year to see how they manage to get an end for these two.… Expand
  4. LaurentV
    Jul 19, 2017
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I can only stand alongside the other reviews that state the first seasons were pure dynamite, but this Season 5 is flaccid and fizzless.

    The earlier seasons had all the quality acting/production values AND were vibrating with tension. The earlier seasons were a chess game to the death with the FBI, bamboozling poor Martha into being a spy, planting bugs on robots, watching Agent Beeman spend all day in a war room full of sketches of Philip's and Elizabeth's alter egos, then going across the street after work for a beer. Bouncing between FBI and the Russian embassy/office as each lay plans and counter plans. Chases, quick thinking, careful preparations...great!

    Now the FBI war room is bare. Beeman and Aderholt mooch around looking for some poor Russian to turn. We keep bouncing to a pointless and unconnected side story with Oleg in Moscow. I never became that connected with Oleg to care too much about his life, especially when it means nothing to the main story in Washington. The lead characters are uncertain and a bit burned out on their mission, which radiates in every non-starting episode. Annoying teenage drivel all the time. Gabriel takes half the season to leave. Philip and Elizabeth's hated former handler returns and there's no spark or flare. We have the last two episodes of the season still to watch and I really don't give a squeak fart if I see them.    … Expand

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Metascore
94

Universal acclaim - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    Mar 7, 2017
    100
    As always, The Americans does complex work that never calls attention to its complexity. The associations and connections are there if you care to make them, but the show maintains plausible deniability as a good spy should, walking briskly from scene to scene as if it’s just here to get the job done and get out.
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  2. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Emily VanDerWerff
    Mar 7, 2017
    100
    Fortunately, The Americans’ fifth season succeeds in addressing our current world by being its assiduously careful self. This is still a show about how, beyond politics, beyond economics, beyond nationalism, people are people. How beautiful, and how terrifying.
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  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    Mar 7, 2017
    100
    The drama remains as tense as ever, with strong, careful writing and an abundance of fine performances.
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