Season five of The Americans just ended, but what’s going to happen next? Recently, showrunners Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg spoke with The Hollywood Reporter about the upcoming final season of the FX TV series.
Set in the 1980s, the drama stars Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as two Soviet KGB officers posing as a married American couple in the Washington, DC suburbs. The cast also includes Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati, Noah Emmerich, Lev Gorn, Costa Ronin, and Brandon J. Dirden.
In the interview, Fields revealed that the final season of The Americans is already planned:
We have 10 outlines written scene-by-scene in detail, and we are in the process of doing what we call our season review now, where we take all of our stories and define every storyline and rewrite and rewrite. Soon, we’ll start turning in the scripts.”
And what are those plans? Fields did tease that marriage and family will be a “big part” of the sixth and final season:
What we can say is, as always, what we’ve most wanted to explore on this show are the human relationships and the marriage and family story. For sure, that’s going to be a big part of the final season.”
What do you think? Are you a fan of The Americans? What do you hope happens in the FX series’ final season?
Since the time period is coming to the end of the Soviet Union it seems reasonable that it will end with the collapse. Then the decision is whether to stay in the US or go to Russia. It appears 3 of the 4 in the family would choose to remain in the US.
I am obsessed with this series. There are several issues that need to be explaned. Is Stan’s new girlfriend a spy? Is Paige going to work with them? Martha came up in the last episode and is she going to adopt the little girl. And then there’s Oleg!!!!
Catch them and send them to prison for life. Remember they are spies and have killed Americans.
Not good news. Was hoping they would return to a focus on the heart and soul of this Series- the SPY STORY!
Love this show. Would hate to see it end!
Great show – would love to see more!
What about Oleg? Did I miss something, or is Oleg’s fate still to be determined? … I’ve been assuming Stan will have a eureka moment, and that the whole series has been wending its way towards the “unveiling” for Stan of Philip and Elizabeth. Are we going to see this? … Why can’t Philip and Elizabeth cut their son loose and let him remain in the U.S. and go to boarding school?
I am not happy that it is ending. It appears stupid to end it. Are they returning to Russia? Will Paige be a spy in the US still? There is still so much to go with! So many open story lines.
How old is the actress who plays Paige? Will we get to see her disrobed?
Spinoff a series with Paige as a Russian spy.
I LOVE this show! I hope it never ends.