The Americans
Only You
TV Flash files “Only You” as hour 10 of 75 in the TV Flash guide — The Americans (2013–2018) on FX, season 1, episode 10, aired 2013-04-10, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E10: listed hour 10 of 75 in the The Americans guide, hour 10 of 13 in season 1. It aired 2013-04-10 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Safe House” (S01E09). Next is “Covert War” (S01E11).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Stan pursues a lead that puts him on the trail to one of Gregory's crew members, closing the gap between him and Elizabeth, and reigniting some of the deepest conflicts between her and Philip.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Only You sit in the The Americans guide?
S01E10 is listed hour 10 of 75 — hour 10 of 13 in season 1, season 1 episode 10.
When did The Americans S01E10 air?
Only You aired 2013-04-10 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
The pilot, then stay sequential. This is not an anthology. The household’s lies compound; skipping seasons is how you miss why a quiet hour is loud.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch it for the kitchen, not the gadget. A six-season FX marriage that happens to be a KGB posting — Reagan-era dread, wigs as character work, and a finale that solves the household instead of the map. Patience is the spoiler. The mission is whether they can stay a couple.
Watch the wig come off, then watch the face that remains. The Americans is a spy series that keeps choosing the kitchen. Joe Weisberg, a former CIA officer, built an FX drama about KGB illegals in 1980s suburbia and then had the nerve to make the marriage the engine. Philip wants a life. Elizabeth wants a cause. The children are American enough to be a security problem. Noah Emmerich’s FBI neighbor is not a cat-and-mouse convenience; he is the sitcom next door, which is the cruelest placement the show ever made.
Filed against
- Keri Russell as Elizabeth Jennings
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- Matthew Rhys as Philip Jennings
Matthew Rhys’s Philip Jennings is the marriage that is the mission on The Americans — an FX illegal whose cover is a family and whose family is the real risk. Joe Weisberg’s Reagan-era spy tragedy treats tradecraft as housework; Rhys…
- Noah Emmerich as Stan Beeman
Noah Emmerich’s Stan Beeman is the FBI neighbor who made The Americans a marriage instead of a gadget show. Reagan-era dread, a backyard fence, and tradecraft that keeps choosing the kitchen. TV Flash watches him as the friend who is also…
- Holly Taylor as Paige Jennings
Holly Taylor’s Paige Jennings is the cost of the cover on The Americans — a suburban daughter who becomes the show’s most dangerous intimacy. Soviet spies as parents was FX’s peak-drama bet; she made the marriage’s collateral into a…
- Keidrich Sellati as Henry Jennings
Keidrich Sellati’s Henry Jennings is The Americans’ cover-family son — FX Reagan-era spy tragedy, tradecraft as housework, Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys as Soviet illegals whose family is the real risk. Not the wig; the suburban witness.…
- Costa Ronin as Oleg Burov
Costa Ronin’s Oleg Burov brought conflicted KGB humanity to The Americans — Cold War marriage-as-espionage with a soul that complicated every loyalty. FX prestige needed that gray. TV Flash files him under the spy who almost chose better…