Officially, I've been scouring my complete series box set of The Americans looking for clips I can use when I teach Cold War era US History next semester.
Unofficially, I've been semi-binge watching it when I should be attending to more mundane yet important matters (grading and PhD research).
I bought the series on DVD because it is not available on blu-ray as a complete series set (only first season is available--there are six). I could have gone with an itunes download package in HD, but it was four times the price (as it was a blind buy, I didn't want to spend too much).
I've finished S1 and I've found it quite entertaining. Even as a "lowly DVD", it scales reasonably well on my 43" budget LG UM7300 4K TV (that doubles as a computer monitor--it's excellent for that purpose). The soft video of DVD resolution is actually helpful at "setting the mood", ironically, as the lower resolution makes it feel like the first half of the 1980s depicted in the series.
It is a bit more soapish than I originally expected but it has enough suspense built into the storylines to make it something of a "guilty pleasure". I would recommend it to anyone who remembers the era with any degree of fondness (or, if too young, is curious about life in the early 80s in Cold War America). It's currently available on Amazon.com for a bit under 40$ (for about 55 hours of episodes--pretty decent price).
Unofficially, I've been semi-binge watching it when I should be attending to more mundane yet important matters (grading and PhD research).
I bought the series on DVD because it is not available on blu-ray as a complete series set (only first season is available--there are six). I could have gone with an itunes download package in HD, but it was four times the price (as it was a blind buy, I didn't want to spend too much).
I've finished S1 and I've found it quite entertaining. Even as a "lowly DVD", it scales reasonably well on my 43" budget LG UM7300 4K TV (that doubles as a computer monitor--it's excellent for that purpose). The soft video of DVD resolution is actually helpful at "setting the mood", ironically, as the lower resolution makes it feel like the first half of the 1980s depicted in the series.
It is a bit more soapish than I originally expected but it has enough suspense built into the storylines to make it something of a "guilty pleasure". I would recommend it to anyone who remembers the era with any degree of fondness (or, if too young, is curious about life in the early 80s in Cold War America). It's currently available on Amazon.com for a bit under 40$ (for about 55 hours of episodes--pretty decent price).
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