ATX Festival Panel: The Americans (2018) 

No Oleg!,,? One of the most important characters in the series. A travesty to not include him in this expose

This is the best TV drama series I've ever watched. Only discovered it this year but so glad I did. The characters were all great and you really felt engaged with them. The last episode - just perfection! Actually moved me to tears. Thank you to all involved, it was brilliant.

finale was a masterpiece. train and garage scene made my heart skip a beat. awesome.

#freeOleg

"A high speed car chase that had to obey the speed limit the entire time." That's such an accurate example of what watching this show feels like, haha. So exhausting yet so good. Well said, Brandon Dirden. @39:00

Good lord Matthew Rhys is downright hilarious. I love his cheeky humor.

Noah Emmerich should have gotten more applause

I wish this show would keep going forever.

This was a great finale! That train scene! And the garage scene!

I have watched this movie (series), few years ago already.. just wanted to reaffirm once again - the greatest of the shows I have ever watched. So realistic.. so natural.. so organic.. so touching.. so non-American (non-Hollywoodian). Respect to Joe Weisberg.. Matthew.. Noah.. Keri.. Holly.. Keidrich.. and sure enough - Costa Ronin! I don't know.. I don't wanna sound too pathetic.. but this show has truly been super authentic and personally touching for me. Not a Hollywood blockbuster.. but a truly real life of real people. Call me the biggest respecter of this work. Thanks again, Joe!

I don't know how to describe how I felt when I saw the last scene of the last episode. I felt so many things. Amazing!!!

the moderator is not great but im happy this exists

One of my favorite series ever. At some point, I hope to view all seasons of the show AGAIN.

Such an amazing serie! I love everything: actors, music, characters (one of my fav was Frank Langella/ Gabriel, such a voice, such a mimic).

Best drama I've ever watched, hands down. Miss it!

Landmark series. Brilliant cast, including the entire ensemble. Unthinkable that it could have been made before the 90s. Philip, Elizabeth and Paige were presented as loveable characters, even withstanding their murderous pursuits.

Thank you ATX Festival for uploading these panels. SDCC could learn something from your commitment to providing fans who can't attend the opportunity to watch these things.

ATX was such a blast this year as was this panel. I'm having a great time reliving it now. Cant wait for next year.

I have been a fan of Matthews since Brothers & Sisters. I love Keri as well. Watched Felicity just before watching this series. Loved her in Waitress & August Rush. ...she surprised me in this series

Great cast from top to bottom. This was all about the finale so it was sad that some of the cast couldn't be there. Noah Emmerich is always solid and Stan was probably my favorite character

The Tchaikovsky had me sobbing my eyeballs out. Amazing choice of music there.

Thanks for uploading this. I just saw the finale and felt empty. Congrats to Joel and Joe for winning the 2018 Emmy for Outstanding Writing for "START", and to Matthew Rhys for Outstanding Dramatic Lead Actor!

best serie ever. Last episode is just amazing, i ll keep it in mind all my life long

Justice for Martha

This shock and tragedy of this show built over time and - to me - always felt earned. The writing was complicated, the characters were intricate, and the acting made me believe it.

Great show. Real people and realistic characters. A rare thing in this day and age of fantasy worlds, superheroes and lovesick teens taking up 90% of all new shows.

Probably the best drama series of the last 30 years.

Очень интересный сериал! Он держит зрителя в напряжении с первой до последней серии сезона. Меня как на машине времени вернуло в прошлое... Бесподобная игра актеров! Очень удалась роль Elizabeth Jennings. Спасибо всем создателям этого сериала! И хорошо, что прошлое в прошлом

Well written & acted show. Everyone is so good! I'm in the middle of Season 5 (APV.) Hard to walk away from it. Would love to see this spin into a movie. ❤💕 Interviewer is distracting but I still enjoyed the panel discussion.

Holly Taylor mirroring Keri's pose and leg cross. Awww, they grow up so fast! 3:)

Didn’t realize the train scene was shot at crestwood st closest train station to me !

Great pushback by Noah Emmerich @24:48 -- stop asking actors to explain what the writers' intent was, or for that matter even what they the actors were doing. Do we ask musicians to explain the intent of the composer, how they were reading the score? And again at @42:13. Every time I was getting to my limits of frustration with the host's inartful and blunt questions, Mr. Emmerich tried to shut it down. And Matthew Rhys too in his own way, by deflecting with humor the sillier questions. It was also irritating to watch this host monopolize almost all the time at what was supposed to be a fan event, and then shortly after he finally let the audience members ask some too (many better questions than his) he tried to shut it down after only a few had had the chance. Kudos to Matthew Rhys again for intervening to allow three more audience members participate.

Seen the series five times now

Hear that DUMB AND DUMBER?!? This is how you end a great show. Unlike what you did in GOT.

Costa Ronin deserved to be at that panel.

"How long did it take to perfect the Welsh accent" hahahaha!

The moderator is horrible. He reminds me of the Chris Farley interviewer skit on SNL with Paul McCartney.

Not to make light of the garage scene; but I was almost expecting Stan to say to the Jennings: "You have made me feel like Commandant Klink"

I didn't even notice the lack of dialogue they mentioned.

Poor Nina

Hate to say this but all I could get out of this panel is how uncomfortable Keri and Holly may have been while sitting in those stupid chairs.

11:00 best moment starts !!! :p

03:25 *u2 HAHAHAHAHA!!..*

great discussion. --------- having spent childhood in the 70s and 80s, i still will wear wool sweaters, not even just itching but outright scratching ones, even without underwear at times, i also have thick woolen pants for deep winter - it really is a matter of growing up with accepting that as a way to be. the current contemporary computer game that comes close to the immediacy and fun of what then were video games and whatnot also on c64, is "neverball", you can get it for free for linux, mac or windows, i find it is as good in the same way as loderunner or son of blagger were. --- the fashion in part comes back, in part we were glad to see it go, and in part some business fashion never seemed to really have changed.

is the wallpaper in paige's bedroom part of the kgb torture techniques? i always wanted to ask this.

Will there be a full Felicity Reunion one??

Were the chairs chosen to help make the actors feel comfortable? Nailed it!

I love the final scene, but I was kinda hoping it would end with Phillip and Elizabeth walking into some local Moscow people and then people ask them if they were Americans because their Russian sounds weird. like with an American accent.

Wondering how the KGB agents in the US enjoyed the show😂

Despite I am from the Soviet Union I liked this TV show

I feel sorry that they did neglect the Russian speaking actors, and Emmerich and Wright was neglected on stage as well. The Russians did their job very good!

what part of quickly do these question askers not understand

Just saw the last episode. I feel empty.

I'd love to hear from Martha

I just love Holly ❤

My only question about the show is why they didn't address Chernobyl at all and how they continued to spin pro Russia to Paige during that time

SPOILER: heads up. at about 7:25 minutes into this video, Keri Russell ("Elizabeth") reveals something about the last episode of "The Americans." And since I have only watched the first two seasons and didn't want to know the ending, I quit watching this video. So you''ve been warned. Maybe six months from now, after I've watched all the episodes, I might come back and watch this video, but not now.

I feel there are so many questions left open, some episodes more would have to be done. What happened with Oleg? What with Philipp's son Misha in Russia? Was Philipp/Misha Oleg's brother or half brother? (Oleg's mother five years in Gulag, Mischa as kid in the Gulag, Gabriel sending people into the Gulag...). Was Henry hired already secretly by KGB? What happened with Paige, Henry and Stan? Would Elizabeth really retire in Russia? Will Philipp/Misha ever come together again with Martha, and what happened with Martha? (Both would have made a better match!) - For me, Paige finally just followed what Philipp said and suggested: to stay and look for Henry. For me, Elizabeth was nowhere near being motherly or nice, she was a psychopath. It is just so, that Keri didn't like that on her role. She was already portraited by the female artist with cancer as a sort of sick dark zombie. And one reason for Philipp's orthodox marriage was just to calm done Elizabeth (always harming Philipp with her negative reports to KGB) and to give him some rights on the kids, because both were not legally married.

goddamn paige... i really wanted to see "Arkady igno... ikrn... jeeze i dont remember his name.

Feels like they deserved a bigger ending vs. what happened. Anyone else think they can just bring this show back somehow or are we stuck with wondering what'll happen to Paige (jail or her likely having to start a new life somewhere else) and Henry (likely Stan's responsibility until he's 18), plus if Stan's 2nd wife is really a honeytrap agent?

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no Alison Wright :(

It's funny Kerri reminds me of a Young Kate Mulgrew and both have played strong women and both have played Russian women. Very interesting!

THOSE LEGS 😱🔥🔥🔥

This panel is about one episode, not the series as a whole. Seems like a wasted opportunity.

E dove sono arkady, oleg, nina e Martha?!!! 😡

Paige and Henry spin off!!!!

Phillip has his son Misha to go back to

Is Kerri high?!?

Just watched this. Keri seemed very out of it. Her look n her answer. Hmmmm, maybe tired?

I cried during this finale. Beautiful show. Matthew to Noah: “I wish I could quit you.” “Never trust a woman who goes to bed fully made up with her hair blown out.” Lololol the notebook and yes I don’t get why these women always look perfect, it’s so unrealistic. Same with his wife. How is her eyeliner always on and hair always in a Vidal sassoon style I disagree that Henry was annoying in the beginning. He was wise as a child. Saved Paige from that creepy guy. He became annoying with the video game crap mid show. Interesting that they said they were fine if the show was hard to track so long as it made sense and felt real. It was hard to track at times and I never knew if I accidentally skipped an episode, but it never felt lazy or like there were certain plot holes that I couldn’t get over. There are many shows that do have this lazy writing

I don't think Philip and Elizabeth were made "to pay" really. They pretty much got away with everything they did over many years. The ones who were really punished were their children, especially Paige whose life is basically ruined now.

"they allowed Elizabeth to stay who she was;" nonsense: there's no way a fanatic like her would have turned on a dime on the Gorbachev issue.

Was Renee KGB?

I found myself unable to suspend disbelief now and again during the series. In the final season the “James Bond reveal” by Claudia to Elizabeth when she outlined the KGB plan was particularly annoying. Also Philip saying “I tried to tell you.” Also when Stan let them go didn’t ring true. There were many others. That said I thought the final season was the strongest and Keri Russell was stupendous in it. It’s a pity the show was an American liberal’s take on Stalinism and Marxism. There’s a lot could have been done.

I'm watching this series for the first time now. The only character that I care about is Paige. I almost want to fast-forward and only watch the scenes with her.

Wow I'm number 666 to like this!

Interviewer was awful!

Holly is so freaking hot, Jesus Christ.

This is so dang silly, discussing the film.

Girls should just wear trousers for goodness sake. When siting high up on panel chairs.

The moderate was insufferable