GamerTab
That was an excellent one.
SpuffyWeb
Sadly Over-hyped
Fairaher
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Celia
A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.
Brain Outy
The ideas behind the series are pretty apt. The actual function of an embedded Soviet agent in the US during this time was not quite so dramatic, but the range of things depicted, did happen.Much of what the series covers, I learned as a student of Russian propaganda in the 1970s, in an American university. The series occurs a few years later, but is still apt, for what I learned.What really frustrates me is that there should be a season 7, to finish off the hanging plot threads. There was hardliner opposition to Mikhail Gorbachev, but he was a protege of Yuri Andropov; KGB SVR & GRU were always at war with each other, so it's plausible enough.Given what's happening with Donald Trump now, this series is especially applicable; so I don't understand why there isn't funding for a season 7. Somebody should pick it up.
margherita-rapin
I love espionage films/shows, and I was really excited when I found out this one. But disappointment was quickly around the corner. I'm afraid it's a rough piece of work, no deep insights, only superficial entertainement following a stiff scheme, episode after episode. Elizabeth is the gutsy one, ok, but Philip is so pliable, so weak with her I wonder how he can have the stomach to do his job. As for Paige, hahaha, since when spycraft is passed down from generation to generation as a disease or physical features? Or is it to show how the Soviet Russians could brainwash even their own children for the cause, which btw is not true, because they knew that a good spy is a freely committed one? Dear oh dear... Want to watch a really breathcatching, well crafted spy show? Go for The Bureau, Berlin Station, or Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (the mini-serie with Alec Guinness)
Ceredon1
...Would have been 10 if they'd just killed off Paige in season 3. Pampered, entitled, shallow, dim witted princess.Series sort of lost its way in season 4-5, especially 5, but remained watchable. Season 6 completely redeemed it completely.If only Paige had died young.
denisegriewisch
After hearing all the rave reviews I checked it out. Barely made it through the first season, definitely won't make it to the 6th. It takes place in the 1980s but, it's surprisingly nondescript. It could have taken place anytime from the late sixties through late 70s. All the cars were the same bland kind of crysler sedan look-alike. Alll the women's hair is the same style that's currently the fashion: long, flowing manes that look like they just got a blowout in a salon in my local mall. No big hair, no big padded shouldered suits. Their clothes are completely nondescript except when Elizabeth goes out for her regular 15 minute assasination, then she looks like the stereotypical cat burglar with leather jacket, black ski cap, black turtle neck. The only thing that gives a hint about it being the 80s is the occasional song by Flock of Seagulls or some other New Wave band. With Mad Men setting such a high bar for authenticity done impeccably, they could have tried a bit harder. And it would have been so easy to do the 80s. And speaking of assasinations, Elizabeth, who weighs maybe 90 lbs., frequently takes on 2-3 men twice her size and the only thing she got after umpteen slug fests is one broken jaw, the bruise from which she easily conceals with her Revlon skin-perfecting makeup. She slashes throats, shoots guys in the head at close range or jabs them with syringes loaded with poison and walks away with her hair perfectly swung over her slender left shoulder, not a drop of blood on her. And, she never breaks a sweat.And the action. Uuuggh! How many gruesome murders per episode? I lost count. And forget secrecy. Philip and four guys were plotting a complex assasination at a neighbor's football game party, in the living room, the game -which none of them are watching-on the TV behind them while other guests mingled around obliviously munching sandwiches. In another bold move, Elizabeth beats up (quite loudly) and kills a guy, stuffs him in the trunk of the family car in the middle of the night in their quiet suburban home with the kids sleeping upstairs. And right after work one evening, they both get nabbed, taken to what looks like the same garage they always secret their captives away in, get tortured, somehow escape and make it home in time to tell the kids, "sorry we're late, we had a car accident, totaled the car, but there's not a scratch on us, so sleep well, nighty-nite." I mean. Please.I can suspend belief but this series asks us to go through a wormhole.The character development is sloooow. Elizabeth's is bland to the point of looking mannequin-like. She seems to have one emotion: staring. She can stare at Philip for 5 minutes but he reads her mind and understands that her a) mission went wrong, b) her daughter almost caught her checking on a guy she has in the trunk of the car in their garage and c) she got another awful assignment to kill another guy tomorrow. She conveys all that in one long stare.This show demands too much of the viewer. It demands too much of itself. The amount of sneaking around, surveillance, murder and mayhem each episode dishes could be parceled out over the course of an entire movie. I think I'll watch again just to count each and every murder, close call and dangerous situation per episode. But, then again, I have better things to do. You should, too.
