The Americans > Season 1 > Episode 8 Mutually Assured Destruction - The Americans Episodes Online

This literally explosive eighth installment (because bombs) saw the KGB tasking the Jennings with neutralizing its own hard-to-find hired killer, and Phillip attempting to apologize his way out of the doghouse with his wife. http://www.tv.com/news/the-ame more

“If you start to think of your marriage as real, you’re of no use to us.” Claudia, a.k.a. Granny, says that to her distrustful KGB agent Elizabeth Jennings in an early scene in “Mutually Assured Destruction.” (What a great more

The title for The Americans really said it all this week, didn’t it? There is a secret war going on that no one wants to become full-fledged combat, regarding both the U.S. and the Jennings’ marriage. Parallels! That being said, the Jennings’ marriage (on more

On tonight’s episode of “The Americans,” they met the enemy and he was…them? Yep, in “Mutually Assured Destruction,” Liz and Phil got the plum assignment of hunting one of their own, when the higher-ups had a change of heart and decided to call off their more

Note: Do not read on if you have not yet seen Season 1, Episode 8 of "The Americans," titled "Mutually Assured Destruction." The Jennings almost save the day again while tracking down a hit-man that Moscow hired to kill some American scientists worki more

The Americans eighth episode is another savage opera of assassins, adultery and explosions. There's only one thing fiercer than its spy versus spy shenanigans: the modern job market. Even though it's set in the 1980s, "Mutually Assured Destruction" reveal more

After a string of increasingly intense episodes, " Mutually Assured Destruction " was rather subdued. While it was enjoyable, it didn't hold my attention as much as previous hours of The Americans . The hunt for the KGB-hired assassin felt more