The Amazing Race recap: We Got a Chance, Baby

(But dont youeventry to take Phils line Phil doesnt like it when you take his lines.) In the end though, each team ended up in exactly the right place. Theres only one leg that first place really matters on, and 2. Credit: Heather Wines/CBS They would need to run a perfect leg to beat the Green Team. NEXT: WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?! Thingsreallyget heated outside the Road Block. What were you thinking?...

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 139 words · Cory Phillips

The Amazing Race recap: We're Only Doing Freaky Stuff Today

It is one epic leg in the French Alps… hope you’re not afraid of heights! So… that leg was amazing. Something about that thin mountain air was making everyone extra funny tonight. Credit: CBS I just cant choose the chemistry was, indeed, too real on this leg. But she still gets it done! In Dynamite, teams traverse the side of a mountain to deliver explosive (and lunch!) to mountain workers who will then use the dynamite to create a controlled explosion that wards off avalanches....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 115 words · Mark Pierce

The Amazing Race recap: You Look Like Gollum

:YouTubersare more competitive thanViners, are more competitive than viral stars…or something like that. What could we do with that knowledge? Im not sure rule the world? Credit: Robert Voets/CBS Use it against the Kardashian Empire in some way? While a good attitude/ability to communicate often helps, a bad one doesnt always mean a teams imminent elimination. Justwhatabout those stairs made everyone look like Gollum?! El Totumo is a volcano full of therapeutic mud thats said to be more than 2,000 feet deep....

May 1, 2025 · 1 min · 171 words · Cory Richardson

The Americans recap: 'The Day After'

The threat of annihilation hangs over the spies and counter-spies Driving lesson a rite of passage for any teenager. Philip is gently guiding Paige through the steps of steering an automobile. She thinks shed do better with a smaller c Get the Camaro out of your mind, he says. Credit: FX The girl suggests Philip join her at a church event so Pastor Tim will think theyre more normal. Later, Philip and Stan are playing racquetball....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 533 words · Jonathan Watson

The Americans recap: A Roy Rogers in Franconia

Henry takes over the game as Elizabeth and Paige enter the house, clearly in a state of distress. Dont we have to call the police? We cant draw any attention to ourselves, her mother answers. Credit: Patrick Harbron/FX Did you have to do that? I feel sick, she says. If she only knew the half of it. The infiltration of the bio-weapons lab? Philip tells Paige he has to leave, for work, per usual....

May 1, 2025 · 6 min · 1162 words · Steven Hendrix

The Americans recap: Chloramphenicol

A major character meets a cruel end My husband and I need to postpone deliveries for this weekend. Thats Elizabeths way of telling the Center: DO NOT KILL PASTOR TIM AND HIS WIFE. Elizabeth also calls home and breaks the news to Paige that the trip is canceled due to unforeseen circumstances. Credit: Patrick Harbon/FX Paige panics shes sure this has something to do with Pastor Tim leaking their family secret....

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 684 words · Michael Johnson

The Americans recap: Clark's Place

There are no hiding places left as the FBI trails Martha Clark owes Martha an apology. Where have you been for the last two days? So he gives her the typical, vague something came up excuse. Credit: Eric Liebowitz/FX She thinks she is under suspicion. She felt alone and abandoned when she couldnt reach him. I will need that back tomorrow morning, he says so she needs to memorize it....

May 1, 2025 · 5 min · 1019 words · Elizabeth Butler

The Americans recap: Experimental Prototype City of Tomorrow

To run to Russia or go to EPCOT? The hour opens with Clark waking up beside Martha on his fold-out sofa. Elsewhere, Elizabeth is undercover, apparently infiltrating a Mary Kay makeup sales meeting. Credit: Craig Blankenhorn/FX But, ah, Mary Kay has the personal touch that solves that! I tell my friends they dont have to look like Martians, Young Hee says. We are all Americans now. Secret Soviet agents are a new one for the good pastor....

May 1, 2025 · 6 min · 1229 words · Darlene Hardin

The Americans recap: Glanders

Oh, the hazy crazy days of youth. He wakes with a start and Elizabeth asks if hes all right. You were right about Martha, he says, passing it off as regular workplace restlessness. Credit: Eric Liebowitz/FX I need to tell her about Gene before she finds out at work. So begins season 4 ofThe Americans. In the next day or two youre going to get disturbing news at work, he says....

May 1, 2025 · 4 min · 831 words · Chad Blanchard

The Americans recap: Munchkins

The episode begins at Young Hees house, where Don is pretty glum at a family dinner with Elizabeth. At home, Philip and Paige are cooking, and she asks about his childhood in Russia. He says it was a tough life. Credit: Patrick Harbron/FX Thats the way you had to be. After the war, people didnt have much. It wasnt about what you liked; it was about hard work and protecting your family, he says....

May 1, 2025 · 5 min · 1034 words · Jon Jenkins

The Americans recap: Pastor Tim

Is the good pastor about to meet his maker? These two regularly sleep with informants and subjects to discern information, but suddenly Elizabeth feels…betrayed. What was bothering Philip so much that he needed the therapeutic embrace of this group? Credit: Eric Liebowitz/FX Gabriel also offers the Jennings family a personal computer. Welcome to the mid-1980s! Moms first reaction: kill the pastor. Dad suggests they wait. Killing Pastor Tim will send Paige fleeing from them....

May 1, 2025 · 3 min · 458 words · Kathleen Hernandez

The Americans recap: The Magic of David Copperfield V: The Statue of Liberty Disappears

Now, her role is clear both to herself and her supervisors at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is time to run. She reads the peanut butter jar label with interest during a quiet, furtive breakfast. Credit: Patrick Harbron/FX You, too, he says. Oh sure, Ill just learn Russian and… She trails off. And she moves on. (At first glance, I read that V as versus. Thanks,Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice!...

May 1, 2025 · 5 min · 1019 words · Jeffrey Griffin

The Americans recap: The Rat

I brought her into this, he tells Elizabeth. Its fascinating to see how much she means to him. This fake wife is not so fake after all. Credit: Craig Blankenhorn/FX That has never been the case with Martha. Throughout this series, weve gotten the sense that this unwitting KGB asset was something of a lonely heart. Engaged to a high-school sweetheart, but that was long ago. He dumped her after she got pregnant, Aderholt says....

May 1, 2025 · 7 min · 1292 words · Rachel Flores