'The Americans' Season 3 Spoilers: Are Matthew Rhys, Keri Russell "Starting To Crack" In Season 4? [WATCH]
The Season 3 finale of The Americans aired on FX. With Season 4 already being planned, undercover spy Elizabeth (Keri Russell) Jennings discover her husband, Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), "starting to crack" after Paige Jennings (Holly Taylor)'s confession?
In our previous recap, Claudia (Margo Martindale) met with Gabriel (Frank Langella), telling him she still wanted to recruit Paige for the Center. Because she doesn't know who her family is, Elizabeth asks Paige to go with her to Russia and visit her dying grandmother. With his pretend marriage crumbling, Philip took off his hair piece, removed his glasses, and revealed his true self to Martha (Alison Wright).
In our recent recap, Philip had to kill and frame one of Martha's co-workers to make the FBI look away from her. After getting the fake defector arrested, Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich) was given the go-ahead to continue his investigation against Oleg (Costa Ronin), but he is nowhere closer to saving Nina (Annet Mahendru). Elizabeth had a chance to say goodbye to her dying mother.
Before the end credits, Philip was able to tell his wife that he wanted to leave the spy business. Elizabeth was filled with hatred as President Reagan declared the Soviet Union an "evil empire." Unable to control herself, the teary-eyed Paige called Pastor Tim and confessed her parents weren't Americans; they're Russians.
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, co-showrunner Joel Weisberg discusses Philip's last scene, " f he had known how to finish that sentence, he would have finished it. We tried to really build in those pauses where she was giving him time to finish, and he couldn't get to the end of that sentence. The first, most important thing is that he himself didn't know how to get to the end of it. He wasn't holding it back. He is not yet at a place where he knows what he's trying to say, and that's one of the most important things there. He's really struggling there. He knows something's wrong. He knows he needs something more. And he doesn't himself know what it is."
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Weisberg adds Elizabeth is still faithful to the cause, "For Philip, there's a big crack in his emotional life that really questions if any political cause is really where his focus is. But for Elizabeth, it's a reaffirmation to what she's committed to all the time. She's right to be committed to it! You've got a guy on the TV making this wild, dangerous accusation, where the person she thinks of as the devil is talking in a crazy way, this man with his finger on the nuclear trigger."
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