The Americans Turns Into The Young And The Restless

The Americans started out as a cute period piece about the nightmare that was Reagan's mourning in American, but the show has turned into a silly soap opera with the main characters running around greater Washington, DC killing people and blowing shit up while wearing embarrassing wigs.  Seriously, if you were a deep deep cover KGB agent like that, the most dangerous part of your life would be meeting your control in public or escaping into the woods at certain times to receive coded radio messages.  As soon as you started active operations, your cover wouldn't last a week--especially in DC for christ's sake!--and your life would be over; those active operations would have to be really fucking important.  At first it looked like the show was going to attempt to portray the stress and paranoia of living such a life without all the silly car chases and shootouts and shit, but they are clearly in a fantasy world now.  There's some good acting work though.  John Boy is doing a great job as the snippy little bureaucrat, and that guy from Little Children is pretty watchable here.  I have no idea what the next season of this show will be like, but I'm sure it will be beyond ludicrous, with the Soviet spies and FBI agents shooting it out on a daily basis and then sharing a car to go to a PTA meeting or something.