Speaking of series finales...

[shapinglight]

...which we weren't really, but anyway, The Americans wrapped up this week.

I belong to a wonderful community here on DW that has been discussing the series from the beginning and have said most of what I have to say on there, but just want to say on my own journal that The Americans has been superlative. It's hardly put a foot wrong in six whole seasons (I say hardly, there have been a few things not so great, but they haven't detracted from the whole) and it ended as it's gone along.

Why it hasn't won a host of TV awards I'll never know. IMO, it's one of the best TV series I've ever seen. What's more, because of its period setting it'll never, ever date.

Wonderful stuff. If you've yet to discover it, I envy you, because I wish I could watch it for the first time again.

That said, it'll bear repeated viewing. And I intend to do just that very soon.

Comments

[shapinglight]

For me, I think it was something like The Good Wife in that a number of seasons had gone by before I was really considering watching something else (and neither is on Netflix).

I thought you had Amazon Prime. Is The Americans not on that? It's so confusing. The streaming services show different things depending on where you live.

But yes, the lack of Emmy attention is, well, there's a reason that every year critics send out lists of things that should have been nominated.

Well, it did get nominated many times. It just never won anything.

[yourlibrarian]

It probably is, though we could also watch it via cable channel, it's just that past seasons now cost money to view. (And no, we don't use Amazon Prime). But it does get super confusing. Just this week I checked on two things that were supposedly on Netflix but neither was -- that's one of the issues with its streaming service, stuff comes and goes all the time.