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The Americans

Media Title · TV series · 77 mentions · 2 subreddits · discussed in r/televisionsuggestions, r/television

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Pros

  • The Americans has the best series finale I’ve ever seen. The whole show I kept thinking “how can this possibly end in a satisfactory way??” and then the way it did was just so phenomenally perfect and avoided every cliche I worried it mi...
  • Genuinely the best series finale I’ve ever seen. The whole show I kept thinking, how can this possibly end?? And then it ends in a way that is both completely unexpected and somehow inevitable. So, so good.
  • You definitely should! Both he and Keri Russell are phenomenal.
  • Matthew Rhys is such a great actor. In both this and The Americans, he’s so good at the “nice guy quickly turned terrifying.”
  • The Americans. Best series finale I’ve ever seen, somehow resolving the build up of six years of tension in a way that felt both surprising and inevitable.

Cons

  • Some people will recommend shows like Slow Horses and the Americans because the enjoy them but this is despite them being utterly unrealistic.
  • The Americans — tried it recently but it hasn’t clicked for me.
  • Although I could tell they were good quality shows, I had trouble getting into The Americans and Homeland.
  • The Americans
  • Other good ones: Slow Horses ofcourse, Berlin Station, Spooks (BBC), The Americans.

Sentiment

66 positive (86%) · 7 mixed (9%) · 4 negative (5%)

Trust + time weighted score: +80% · raw score 81%

What redditors said (10 of 77)

Some people will recommend shows like Slow Horses and the Americans because the enjoy them but this is despite them being utterly unrealistic.
negative · u/G****e · r/televisionsuggestions · comment · Jul 3, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
The Americans has the best series finale I’ve ever seen. The whole show I kept thinking “how can this possibly end in a satisfactory way??” and then the way it did was just so phenomenally perfect and avoided every cliche I worried it might fall into. Every character had an ending that felt completely necessary, even if it was inevitably heartbreaking.
positive · u/y****e · r/televisionsuggestions · comment · Dec 17, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Genuinely the best series finale I’ve ever seen. The whole show I kept thinking, how can this possibly end?? And then it ends in a way that is both completely unexpected and somehow inevitable. So, so good.
positive · u/y****e · r/televisionsuggestions · comment · Dec 1, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
You definitely should! Both he and Keri Russell are phenomenal.
positive · u/y****e · r/televisionsuggestions · comment · Dec 1, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Matthew Rhys is such a great actor. In both this and The Americans, he’s so good at the “nice guy quickly turned terrifying.”
positive · u/y****e · r/televisionsuggestions · comment · Dec 1, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
The Americans. Best series finale I’ve ever seen, somehow resolving the build up of six years of tension in a way that felt both surprising and inevitable.
positive · u/y****e · r/televisionsuggestions · comment · Aug 4, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
The Americans. Hands down the best series finale I've ever seen. There were so many ways that ending could have gone wrong. Instead it went amazingly, breathtakingly, exactly right.
positive · u/O****n · r/televisionsuggestions · comment · Aug 20, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
The Americans had a few spots where it dragged a bit. But overall, it's top tier. And it had the best series finale I have ever seen. It stuck the landing like nothing else. THAT was a masterpiece and totally worth the ride.
positive · u/O****n · r/televisionsuggestions · comment · Jul 7, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Here’s a list of shows I’ve loved in the past to give you an idea of my taste: * The Americans
positive · u/e****m · r/televisionsuggestions · Jul 3, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
The Americans and the Diplomat were outstanding shows
positive · u/e****e · r/televisionsuggestions · comment · Feb 12, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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