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Waiting for Season 4 of The Americans on FX.

Last night I re-watched some of the season 3 episodes in eager anticipation.

I guess The Americans is an acquired taste. I am drawn to it for the writing and multiple story arcs along with the realism in how spy craft was done prior to the digital age. Underneath the espionage, the show is about a marriage.
Being married with kids that are about the same age as the characters Paige and Henry, I can relate to some of the issues they face. Season 3 had a lot of conflict between the two parents about what was best for their oldest kid, Paige - to keep their dangerous spy lives a secret, or to tell her and train her to be a spy also (which is what the Russian Rezidentura wanted). The cliffhanger was them telling her, which completely blew her mind, and then she confided in a close friend. Season 4 will be interesting to see what repercussions there are. Will she go along with her parents? Will her friend (who's also her Pastor) tell the authorities (will that violate his confessional oath?), will they tell their son Henry too? That's just for one of at least 4 different plot lines going on. That web of plot development is another part of why I'm so interested in it.

The OJ show looks interesting, but knowing the outcome, it doesn't do much to persuade me to watch something that I thought was over sensationalized at the time. During the trial in 1995, I was in my first year of college. I was tired of hearing about it then, so I'm kind of biased.