"The Americans" season 3 has wrapped up and as usual, it was a pulsating, heart-stopping 47 minutes of television.
Ever since the day Philip and Elizabeth Jennings (Matthew Rhys and Keri Russell) decided to come clean to their daughter Paige (Holly Taylor) about their real roots, viewers expected nothing but more conflicts within the family and difficulties in the couple's job. Paige knows now what her parents really are and she is not comfortable with it.
In the finale called "March 8, 1983," the one thing most fans are afraid of finally happened.
The daughter of the two KGB Agent told the secret of his parents to Pastor Tim even if she was advised not to. That scene in the "The Americans" season 3 finale was a slow burn.
The pictures transfers from Paige to Philip and Jennings who was watching a speech by US Pres. Ronald Reagan called the "evil-empire." In that speech, Reagan labeled the US as the good and the Soviet Union as, obviously, the evil one.
Paige's decision to reveal about her parents comes at the most terrible time, no thanks to that speech by Reagan. So what's next for the couple? Talking to The Hollywood Reporter shortly after "The Americans" season 3 finale, executive producers Joe Weisberg and Joel Fields said there is no clear plan yet what will happen to Philip and Elizabeth in season 4.
Fields: That's the big question. That's definitely a thread we intend to pick up. Joe says we'd be fired for not picking it up, and we'd probably be fired for talking too much about it in an interview.
Weisberg: It's a ticking time bomb. That's one of the most interesting aspects of it. I don't know if you can turn a pastor into a ticking time bomb.
While the aftermath of "The Americans" season 3 episode 13 is still unclear, Fields and Weisberg said they decided to make Paige turn her back against her parents by the 10th episode of the recently concluded season.
"We knew Paige was going to tell Pastor Tim for quite some time, but we just didn't know exactly where it would fall in the drama - just like we knew that Philip and Elizabeth were going to tell Paige, but we didn't know exactly where that would fall into the drama," Fields said.
"This family is truly a family, and as such loves each other in its own way. Yet, at the same time, their family has blind spots. The idea that these parents had thought that they had gotten through a rough patch with their daughter and thought that things were on an even keel while missing entirely what was going on, it just rings very true. Somebody just said in our writers' room today, "What's really going on is that Philip and Elizabeth have an adolescent.""
